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  History of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United State's late entry in the First World War on the side of the Allied Powers shifted the balance of the war, and made the United States a major military as well as financial power.
The post-war era in the United States was defined internationally by the beginning of the Cold War, where the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to expand their influence at the expense of the other, checked by each side's massive nuclear arsenal.
Although the United States deficit rapidly expanded, the Eastern Bloc began to unravel under increasing economic strain, finally and dramatically collapsing during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
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 History of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During this period the United States won its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War and established itself as the United States of America.
The United States prevailed in the War of 1812 after bitter fighting, which lasted until January 8, 1815 (ironically after the peace treaty) on many fronts.
And as the 21st century was born, the United States came to realize that its Cold War victory was anything but the end of history, as battling islamic terrorism, at home and abroad, became the country's newest raison d'ĂȘtre.
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 History of the United States (1945-1964)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union was an aberration from the normal tenor of Russian-U.S. relations.
The United States also led the effort to impose its vision of the world with new international agencies: the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which were created to ensure an open, capitalist, international economy.
This brief tenure was marked by such notable events as the acceleration of the United States' role in the space race, the beginning of the escalation of the American role in the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; these events aggravated the Cold War with the USSR.
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 History of the United States (1964-1980) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Before 1964, the political coalition of labor unions, minorities, liberals, and southern whites (the New Deal Coalition) allowed the Democrats to control the government for much of the next 30 years, until the issue of civil rights divided conservative southern whites from the rest of the party (see Dixiecrat).
Attempting to balance concerns for South Vietnam's ability to defend itself alone, with the increasing pressure from the United States Congress to get the troops out, as well as the legislature's inclination to unilaterally reduce and finally cut off funding for the war, Nixon was forced to expend great amounts of effort and political capital.
However, the United States targeted, as it did in the 1950s, governments which were perceived as Marxist, even in cases when they had been elected, such as Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende.
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 History of the United States (1945-1964) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There were fundamental contrasts between the visions of the United States and the Soviet Union, between capitalism and communism; those contrasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways of life, each vindicated in 1945 by previous disasters.
In the United States, containment of the Soviet Union soon became doctrine, following the advice of people like State Department officer George Kennan who argued that the Soviets had to be "contained" using "unalterable counterforce at every point," until the breakdown of Soviet power occurred.
The United States reacted with alarm as it watched Mohammed Mossadegh, the nationalist prime minister of Iran, nationalized his nation's British-owned oil wells in 1951.
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 Military history of the United States - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After having won its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845; however, the southern and western borders of Texas remained disputed during the Republic's lifetime.
On April 12 1861, forces of the South (known as the Confederate States of America or simply the Confederacy) opened fire on Fort Sumter, whose garrison was loyal to the forces of the North (who represented the United States or simply the Union).
In the United States, the conflict was termed a police action under the aegis of the United Nations rather than a war, largely in order to remove the necessity of a Congressional declaration of war.
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 United States History Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
The United States of America was founded in 1776 from British colonies along the Atlantic Coast of North America.
In 1789, the Constitution of the United States was adopted, and George Washington was elected the first President of the United States.
Westward expansion by official acts of the United States Government was accompanied by the western (and northern in the case of New England) movement of settlers into the trans-Appalachia region and beyond The Frontier.
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The increasingly urban and industrialized Northern states (The Union) eventually defeated the mainly rural and agricultural Southern states (the Confederacy), but millions of Americans on both sides were killed and much of the land in the South was devastated.
As the Cold War dragged on, the United States entered the Vietnam War, found itself fragmenting socially as women, minorities and young people rebelled against the status quo, and therein faced its greatest crisis since the Civil War.
And as the 21st century was born, the United States came to believe that despite its victory in the Cold War, it still faced a major threat in Islamist terrorism, both at home and abroad.
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 Economic_history_of_the_United_States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Over the course of those years, the United States grew from an alliance of thirteen British colonies with distinct economies and institutions to represent over a fifth of the world economy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States later that year, as well as a slate of Democratic "New Dealers".
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President by a landslide, and immediately began a series of cuts in taxes and spending.
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 History of the United States (1849-1865) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While the South's economy was based on slave labor, the Northeast was an emerging industrial society.
The war ended with union victory on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after leaving roughly 650,000 dead.
In the aftermath of the war, the United States was left to determine the status of roughly four million former African American slaves and to reintegrate the eleven Confederate states into the Union.
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 United States: History
In the race for technological superiority the United States exploded (1952) the first hydrogen bomb, but was second to the USSR in launching (Jan. 31, 1958) an artificial satellite and in testing an intercontinental guidedmissile.
That conflict showed that the United States was again reluctant to commit military forces, such as its army, that were likely to suffer significant casualties, although it would use its airpower, where its great technological advantages enabled it strike with less risk to its forces.
In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
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 United States History Subject Guide
History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses.
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
George Welling and his students are compiling a collection of documents relating to the history of the United States, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, with some coverage of the period up to the First World War.
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 History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
When the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin the first Postmaster General in 1775, the United States was a weak confederation of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard.
The Postal Service is making history, too, as it helps lead the way in making the federal government more businesslike and responsive to customer needs.
This is the story of the evolution of the Postal Service and the role it has played in the development of the United States.
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 Learn more about Timeline of United States history in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Learn more about Timeline of United States history in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
This is a timeline of United States history.
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 United States Grand Prix History
Formula 1 has only recently returned to America, but it has a fabulous and exciting history in the United States.
From Bruce McLaren's last lap victory in Florida to Rubens Barrichello's win in Indianapolis, learn about the achievements of the world's greatest drivers at nine different American venues in the United States Grand Prix.
American drivers have also made their mark on F1 with 50 participants, five Grand Prix winners and two World Champions.
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 United States History
Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
Oral History and Folklore of the Miami Valley, Ohio (Miami University)
Darrell Reeck, "The Spirit of the Amistad in the United Methodist Church,"
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 Articles - History of the United States (1964-1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Articles - History of the United States (1964-1980)
However, Johnson's loss of most Deep Southern states signified an ominous electoral trends for Democrats, who had depended on the "solid South" as an electoral base for a hundred years.
Some state that the destabilization of the Vietnam War and distractive cover of the conflict allowed the Khmer Rouge to flourish.
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