The Seven Years War

• War between Britain and its allies, Prussia, against France and its allies,Austria and Russia. 
• Fought over trade competition and colonial competition in the New World and around the world
• Supposedly lasted seven years but it is still in debate
• Caused over growing tensions over trade and colonial space.
• Prussia did majority of the majority of the fighting in Europe holding off France. Russia and Austria on land. Britain fought mainly in India and The Americas, dominating the seas.
• France and England made alliances with local Indian tribes to control America
• The British and their Indian Allies ousted France from modern day Canada. They let them keep the Caribbean however
• From Spain, who sided with France, they took Florida but not Cuba.
• The war set England in a role to dominate world trade and colonial expansion to create the British empire.

This topic connects to theme 3. The expansion of empires in a and and economic space. Along with the building of a powerful state, The British Empire.