▪ The importance of the British monarchy can be en in its effect on advising the government.
▪ As a revising chamber, the Hou of Lords is expected to complement the Hou of Commons.
▪ In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every five years.
▪ Generally speaking, the British Parliament operates on a two-party system.
▪ The importance of the British monarchy can be en in its effect on advising the government.
▪ As a revising chamber, the Hou of Lords is expected to complement the Hou of Commons.
▪ In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every five years.
▪ Generally speaking, the British Parliament operates on a two-party system.
▪ The policies of the Conrvative Party are characterized by pragmatism and a belief in individualism.
▪ The United States has 48 states on the continent.
▪ The state of Alaska is the largest in area of all the states.
▪ The Vietnam War was a long-time suffering for Americans, and it continued throughout the terms of Presidents Einhower, Kennedy and Johnson.
▪ The U.S. Constitution came into effect in 1789.
▪ The Constitution of the United States tries to give each branch enough power to balance the others.
▪ The terms of a Senator and Reprentative are six and two years respectively.
▪ The Supreme Court is compod of eight justices.
▪ The first National Bank of the United States was established with the urge of Alexander Hamilton
▪ Higher education in the United States began with the founding of Harvard University.
▪ The New Deal was started by Franklin Roovelt.
▪ The general election in America is held every four years.
▪ The symbol of the US Democratic Party is donkey.
▪ The following states are among the first thirteen colonies except Colorado.
▪ The first American President from the Republic Party is Abraham Lincoln.
▪ 1689 marked the beginning of the constitutional monarchy in England. （Bill of Rights）
▪ Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1859.
▪ Florence Nightingale was a famous nur who organized the care of soldiers wounded in the Crimean War
▪ In 1934, a fully government-funded unemployment benefit system was, for the first time, paid out according to need rather than contribution.
▪ World War II was finally over in 1945with the victory of the allies.
▪ In 1997, Tony Blair became Prime Minister in a landslide victory for Labor.
▪ John Milton is best known for the epic poem Paradi Lost, an account of humanity’s fall from grace.
▪ The Constitution mainly consists of: Statutory law, common law, and convention.
▪ The maximum duration of Parliament is five years and is dissolved by the Crown on the advice of the Prime Minister.
▪ The UK government, officially known as His (or Her) Majesty’s Government, is centere
d on Whitehall in London.
▪ The UK Cabinet meets in private and normally weekly at 10 Downing Street and initiates most of the important bills under debate in Parliament.
▪ The New England ttlers—English puritans were committed to turning the New World into the Kingdom of God.
▪ An axis power in World War II refers to Germany, Italy, and Japan.
▪ On 25 April, 1945, reprentatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to create a world organization named the United Nation.
▪ The twin symbols of American Affluence-- home in the suburbs and a gleaming new automobile.
▪ The failure of the U.S. war in Vietnam filled most Americans with shame and the revelations of the Watergate scandals filled many with disgust.
▪ Lyndon Johnson deftly took charge of the nation’s political following Kennedy’s shocking assassination.
▪ The end of the Cold War was marked by the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
▪ Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
▪ Congress of the US is made up of the Senate and the Hou of Reprentatives.
▪ Great Society： It refers to social reform programs propod by Johnson. J meant to u federal political and financial power to solve such problems as related to civil rights, poverty, urban renewal, health care, public school education, immigration and conrvation. US Congress enacted most of the Great Society measures between 1964 and 1966.
▪ Melting Pot：Since the United States is a nation of many ethnic groups, it is also known as a “melting pot,” meaning immigrants from different nations all over the world have mixed to make up the American nation.
