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United States Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | , the U.S., the U.S.A., the U.S. of A., the States, or (poetically) Columbia. |
 | | Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America. |
 | | The United States is sometimes critized for interventionist policies in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and occasional aid (financial, military and otherwise) given to repressive governments and warlords during the Cold War against the Soviet Union. |
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