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American History Lecturer: Qin Jie Aims Get to know the general history of US Get to know the specific and significant events of US history Get to know the important historical figures Information about American Civil War Review The Gettysburg Address Five?score?years?ago,a?great?American,?in?whose?symbolic?shadow?we?stand?today,?signed?the?Emancipation?Procla-mation.?This?momentous?decree?came?as?a?great?beacon? light?of?hope?to?millions?of?Negro?slaves?who?had?been? seared?in?the?flames?of?withering?injustice.?It?came?as?a? joyous?daybreak?to?end?the?long?night?of?bad?captivity.????But?one?hundred?years?later,?the?Negro?still?is?not?free.?One?hundred?years?later,?the?life?of?the?Negro?is?still?sadly?crippled?by?the?manacles?of?segregation?and?the?chains?of?discrimination.?One?hundred?years?later,?the?Negro?lives? on?a?lonely?island?of?poverty?in?the?midst?of?a?vast?ocean?of?material?prosperity.?One?hundred?years?later,?the?Negro?is?still?languished?in?the?corners?of?American?society?and? finds?himself?an?exile?in?his?own?land.?So?we’ve?come?here?today?to?dramatize?a?shameful?condition. (I have a dream Martin Luther King) First World War A major war centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. This conflict involved all of the worlds great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centered around the Triple Entente-France, Britain, Russia) and the Central Powers-Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary. The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was the proximate trigger of the war. Long-term causes, such as imperialistic foreign policies of the great powers of Europe, such as the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, France, and Italy, played a major role. World War I At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the United States remained neutral. Most Americans sympathized with the Br