EISENHOWER FOREVER! He lived less than 20 minutes from my house. And has a museum all about him! Can George Washington say he has one? No!

Those parts with the Wall, Prussia, and the crate were great. Russia being all this isn't the end as good too

"Hey, America. Do you want to buy some territory?"

That's how it happened. I'm not letting anyone tell me otherwise.

YES I UNDERSTOOD THAT WAR GAMES REFERENCE

This was really good. Maybe you could try continuing with more recent history?
P.S. I didnt notice any spelling or grammer mistakes although grammers not my best thing. ;)

"Five," England countered as America slipped and fell down the hill.

Me: PFFFFT

Very good story!

I like this non-angsty history here and I love Washington warning off Britain. :)

I absolutely love this! Very well done!

This was epic, and so awesome because I recognized a lot of these events and it was hilarious to see them Hetalia-fied.

Great history. I loved the France-in-a-coat saying "Wanna buy some territory?" Hilarious.

I hope you're not perpetuating the myth that America caused a world-wide Great Depression? I know Hetalia makes "Blame America" a joke, but it isn't funny. From an Americentric point of view, the stock market crash started the Great Depression, but worldwide depression started before that.

Europe's economic problems came from WWI and all the debt they'd racked up, owing loans to America. Germany and Hungary were squeezed to pay reparations to so those countries in turn could pay their loans. Germany and Hungary's economies were already in the basement, so they relied on loans from Britain and America to pay the reparations.

Reliance on the gold standard caused imbalance in money:

"By 1928, Germany, Brazil, and the economies of Southeast Asia were depressed. By early 1929, the economies of Poland, Argentina, and Canada were contracting, and the U.S. economy followed in the middle of 1929."

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Countries played economic warfare, undervaluing currency, raising interest rates, reducing price levels to restrict economic activity. Protectionism and the Austrian bank crisis Creditanstalt ( wiki/ Creditanstalt) threw economies into a freefall. Countries that went off the gold standard and began to rearm recovered faster than everybody else.

Sorry if this is incredibly boring! Maybe you didn't mean to echo Hetalia's 'it's all America's fault' humor, and I'm just talking to myself. :P

This is great, i love it. The best part for me was the "staring contest" which then turned to a "tic-tac-toe" match, i was laughing so hard! :-D

I actually just wanted to clear up a few jarring points in your notes. According to the 1898 Treaty of Paris, Spain ceded Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States. It was actually the Philippines (not Guam) that the United States purchased from Spain for $20 million (not $20,000. The joke among historians is that the United States paid $20 million, "and then some," in order to subdue the Philippines. I believe the total amount that the U.S. racked up in the purchasing and pacifying of the archipelago came up to about $600 million. I could be wrong about the estimation). Also, both Cuba and the Philippines were already in the middle of their respective revolutions by the time the United States came into the picture. In this sense, the U.S. was the "game changer" in the fates of the two Spanish colonies.

Being one of the last of its colonies, Spain had not originally wanted to cede the Philippines (aka, Spanish East Indies, of which, Guam was a part of) to the United States, even though the U.S. had offered to pay about $30 million or so in the first round of negotiations in settling the war. In the end, because of political instability due to the 1868 Spanish Revolution, Spain eventually accepted the $20 million that the U.S. paid for the Philippines.

And the "Splendid Little War" was a jingoistic phrase that was originally coined by UK Ambassador John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt. Its use by the yellow journalism of the media spread like wildfire.

"1930's

Oops."

Totally applicable to today's decade as well. Other than that, I loved this. You could literally picture the comic strips in your head. very clever cues- especially the cuban missile crisis being shown at a game of tic-tac-toe.