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United States of America
Timeline: Victory To The Rising Sun
OTL equivalent: United States
Flag of the United States Greater coat of arms of the United States
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: 
"In God We Trust"
Anthem: 
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Location of the United States (VTTRS)
United States (green)
CapitalWashington, D.C.
Largest city New York City
Official languages None at a federal level
English (de-facto)
Demonym American
Government Federal presidential constitutional republic
 -  President Bernie Sanders (D)
 -  Vice President Tim Kaine (D)
 -  House Speaker {{{leader_name3}}}
 -  Chief Justice {{{leader_name4}}}
Legislature Congress
 -  Upper house Senate
 -  Lower house House of Representatives
Independence from Great Britain
 -  Declaration July 4, 1776 
 -  Confederation March 1, 1781 
 -  Recognized September 3, 1783 
 -  Constitution June 21, 1788 
Population
 -  2022 estimate 331,893,800 
Currency Dollar ($) (USD)
Date formats mm/dd/yyyy
Calling code +1

The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a transcontinental country primarily located in North America. It consists of fifty-one states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and nine minor outlying islands. It is the third-largest country by both land and total area. The United States shares land borders with Canada to the north and with Mexico to the south as well as maritime borders with the West Indies, Cuba, and Russia, among others. It is known for its highly diverse climate and geography, encompassing landscapes that range from polar to tropical, arid to humid, and is officially recognized as one of the 17 megadiverse countries. With more than 331 million people, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city and financial center is New York City.

Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the Thirteen British Colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes with Great Britain over taxation and political representation led to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which established the nation's independence. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across North America, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states. This was strongly related to belief in manifest destiny, and by 1848, the United States spanned the continent from east to west. Slavery was legal in the southern United States until 1865, when the American Civil War led to its abolition. A century later, the civil rights movement led to legislation outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans. The Spanish–American War and World War I established the U.S. as a world power, and the aftermath of World War II left the United States, the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan (until 1960) as the world's three superpowers. During the Cold War, three countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, which culminated in the 1969 landing of Apollo 11, making the U.S. the only nation to land humans on the Moon. With the fall of the Empire of Japan following the Tokyo Spring in 1960, and the Soviet Union's collapse and the subsequent end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower.

The United States government is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population, and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Many policy issues are decentralized at a state or local level, with widely differing laws by jurisdiction. The U.S. ranks highly in international measures of quality of life, income and wealth, economic competitiveness, human rights, innovation, and education; it has low levels of perceived corruption. It has higher levels of incarceration and inequality than most other liberal democracies and is the only liberal democracy without universal healthcare. As a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, the U.S. has been drastically shaped by the world's largest immigrant population.

It possesses by far the largest amount of wealth of any country as well as the highest disposable household income per capita among OECD countries, but has high levels of wealth and income inequality. The U.S. ranks among the world's highest in economic competitiveness, productivity, innovation, human rights, and higher education. Its hard power and cultural influence have a global reach. The U.S. is a founding member of the World Bank, the Organization of American States, NATO, and the United Nations, as well as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

History[]

Main article: History of the United States

Early years (1783-1803)[]

Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington

George Washington, the first president of the United States.

Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States officially became recognized as an independent state, marking the end of the American Revolutionary War. Despite this newfound independence, the young nation faced significant challenges in its early years, including the task of establishing a functioning government, defining its relationship with European powers, and navigating the ongoing issue of slavery. These challenges would ultimately shape the course of American history in the years to come. At the time, the United States was still a confederation, with the Articles of Confederation serving as its governing document and did not yet have a constitution. The question of whether the United States should become a republic or a monarchy was fiercely contested, reflecting the tensions and divergent views within the fledgling nation. There were suggestions that George Washington, the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and future president, should become King of the United States. However, Washington, a strong advocate for republicanism, refused these proposals, ultimately rejecting any notion of establishing a monarchy in the newly independent nation. On the same time, there were suggestions that Prince Henry of Prussia might become King of the United States.

Declaration of Independence (1819), by John Trumbull

Declaration of Independence, a portrait by John Trumbull depicting the Committee of Five presenting the draft of the Declaration to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776, in Philadelphia

Another issue was slavery, which was a contentious topic in the early United States, particularly between the North and South. While slavery was already abolished in the North, it persisted in the South. The Three-Fifths Compromise was eventually agreed upon to address the question. This compromise decided that while slaves would not be counted as full citizens, they would be counted as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes in the United States House of Representatives.

The United States Constitution, which confirmed that the United States would be a federal republic, was ratified in June 1788 and entered into force in March 1789. From December 1788 to January 1789, the first presidential election was held, in which George Washington won unopposed, becoming the first president of the United States under the constitution. In 1789, work began on amendments to the United States Constitution known as the Bill of Rights to limit government power. The Bill of Rights entered into force on 15 December 1791.

Westward Expansion and the sectional crisis (1791-1861)[]

War of 1812[]

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Civil War (1861-1865)[]

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Post–Civil War period (1865–1917)[]

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Rise as a superpower (1917–1947)[]

Main article: History of the United States (1917–1946)

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Initially neutral during World War II, the U.S. began supplying war materiel to the Allies of World War II in March 1941 and entered the war in December after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. [UNDER PROGRESS] The United States was one of the "Four Policemen" who met to plan the post-war world, alongside the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China. The U.S. emerged relatively unscathed from the war, with even greater economic power and international political influence.

Cold War (1947–1991)[]

Main article: Cold War

After World War II and the defeat of the United States in the Pacific War, the United States entered the Cold War, where geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan (until 1960) led the three countries to dominate world affairs. The U.S. utilized the policy of containment to limit both the USSR's and the Empire of Japan's spheres of influence, and prevailed in the Space Race, which culminated with the first crewed Moon landing in 1969. The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the fall of Japanese fascism alongside the Tokyo Spring and the subsquent collapse of the Empire of Japan and the GEACPS, which marked the end of the Cold War in Asia, leaving both United States and the Soviet Union as the last two remaining superpowers for most of 20th century.

Domestically, the U.S. experienced economic growth, urbanization, and population growth following World War II. The civil rights movement emerged, with Martin Luther King Jr. becoming a prominent leader in the early 1960s.

Government and politics[]

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