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 | | Unlike European countries, the US was never a colonial power (having itself been spawned from a colonial rebellion) but through various military victories, diplomacy, and outside dealings, the US acquired a number of overseas possessions, from Cuba to the Philippines, though it gave up most of these over time. |
 | | The US became a center for innovation and technological development; major technologies that America either developed or was greatly involved in improving include the telephone, television, computer, the Internet, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, aviation and aeronautics. |
 | | US foreign policy has swung about several times over the course of its history between the poles of strict isolationism and imperialism and everywhere in between. |
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