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The “new millennium” you might ask? What about the time between Watergate and the year 2000? What about Ronald ReaganReagan, Ronald and the end of the Cold WarCold War? What about the Clintons and the Bushes? What about ObamaObama, Barack? And of course what about the defining moment that ended the old millennium, the event given the same name as the number that Americans call in case of an emergency: 911? These are some of the topics that we’ll be looking at in other parts of the book.

We end American history with one of those wonderful questions that can have no wrong answer since each person has their own associations with AmericaAmerica today in a millennium that is no longer so new. The rest of this book – at least the parts of it that deal with the United States – will present what is generally thought to be important for GermanGerman students to know about America. We’ll be referring again and again to some of the facts and insights possible from a geographical and historical point of view. But first we need a transition from the United States in the 21^st century to the United KingdomUnited Kingdom. And the Queen herself provided one in 2007 when she made international news by visiting a place we also visited at the beginning of our survey of American history: JamestownJamestown, VirginiaVirginia. The Queen helped mark the quadricentennial (a fancy word for 400^th year) anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in North America. Of course we need to go much further back in English history for our look at history of the island kingdom.