History project

          The American Revolution has turn the world upside-down. From the French Revolution to the transfer of the Louisiana Territory, the revolution had influenced many things to happen.

            First, the most well-known influenced is the French Revolution. The French didn’t know how to revolt until they saw us. After seeing us escape or rulers and fight for liberty, the French decided to overthrow their king. Many of the French people who fought for America, like Lafayette, came to France and wanted to rebel just like the Americans. However, the revolution was a failure even though the royal family was killed and overthrown. It left the country in chaos until a brilliant dictator named Napoleon to take charge. But what’s the point of trying to get rid of a dictator, if you’re just going to post a new one?

            Without the French Revolution, there might not have been a Napoleon Bonaparte in history. As a genius military director in the chaos after the revolution, Napoleon became famous. One of Napoleon’s biggest action as a dictator was to give the Americans the Louisiana territory. Had it not been that we won the revolution and stall our independence decades later, we would have not been given the Louisiana territory, an essential area in expanding our power and territory.

            If the French Revolution leads up to Napoleon, and he leads up to our expansion; what does our expansion lead up to? Not having the expand our industrial power would have lead to many things. One of these might be the Allies loss in World War II. In WW2, Russia was being invaded by the Germans, Asia was dominated by Japan, Africa was conquered by Mussolini, and Great Britain suffered from the Blitz. This all before the United States joined the war. When we joined, the Nazis stood no chance. If our industrial power had been smaller though, we might have been just like France or China, annihilated and humiliated by the Axis.

            However, these big world influences aren’t the only influences. There are many more groups and events that were affected. The Polish Revolution against Russia followed ours. Other minor revolutions were based on our principles, and the documents were similar to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. As one of the biggest, most influential war in the world, the American Revolutions did truly turn the world upside-down.