United States of America (USA) (1945-1990)

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Soviet_Air_Defense_Was_Stunned_When_the_US_B-1_Lancer_Bomber_Could_Fly_Under_Their_Radar — Soviet Air Defense Was Stunned When the US B-1 Lancer Bomber Could Fly Under Their Radar

The Soviet air defence was stunned when the US B-1 Lancer bomber could fly under their radar.

First_Supersonic_Flight_"Breaking_the_Sound_Barrier"_1947_USAF;_Chuck_Yeager_in_the_Bell_X-1 — First Supersonic Flight "Breaking the Sound Barrier" 1947 USAF; Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1

First Supersonic Flight "Breaking the Sound Barrier" 1947 USAF; Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1.

A photograph of the Explorer 1 satellite.

Overview[]

The United States of America (AKA: The United States, The States, US, USA or America) is the dominant country on the North American continent. It is built up of 50 states, a federal district, 5 major territories, and various other possessions. The US is either the 3rd or 4th largest country by total area, and the 3rd largest by population, behind China, and India. The USA was founded on 4 July 1776 when 13 former British colonies in North America declared independence from the United Kingdom. It was the competitor of the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is generally considered the victor in the struggle, along with it's allies in NATO and the EU.

America is one of the largest countries in the world. It's a federal republic consisting of 50 states, 48 of which are contiguous and a capital federal district. It also holds 5 territories in remote areas of the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.

It is one of the world's most economically and politically influential countries and most topographically, meteorologically, ethnically and culturally diverse nation. It has self liberties and great vacation destinations, such as L.A, New York City, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and many other cities.

Name-United States of America (USA)
Continents = North America
Population = (1990).
Capital city= Washington D.C.
Currency- United States Dollar (USD or US$).
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Trade organisations- Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Canada–United States Automotive Products Agreement (the Auto Pact).
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Space agency- Yes, it was the world's best.
Defence organisation: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
National global power ranking: Super-power (after about 1955 to about 1985).
Nuclear, chemical and biological (NBC) arms: Yes for all.

The USA was the undisputed leader of the Western nations from 1945 to 1990. It went on to become the dominant power in the 1990s and 2000s, but went in to decline in the early 2010s.

While America feigned being a liberal democracy since it WW2, it was at heart a repressive and corrupt pseudo-democracy, based on hating any one who was not a White American. It got a lot better between the 1970s and 2010s, but after that it slipped back in to being a racist, repressive and corrupt pseudo-democracy.

The psychiatric system was regularly abused for political persecution between the 1930s and 1960s.

The "McCarthy witch hunts" and ideology of McCarthyism of the 1950s were aimed at jailing the opponents of White fascism, the Cold War and big business.

History[]

Pre- WW2 History[]

The Mayflower was a sailing ship. Between 16 September and 16 November 1620 (between 6 September and 11 November according to the Old Gregorian Calendar), it carried Pilgrims from England and the Netherlands onboard across the Atlantic Ocean towards North America, where it landed in Massachusetts. The American Thanksgiving holiday is based on the Thanksgiving first observed by these Pilgrims.

The USA was founded on 4 July 1776 when 13 former British colonies in North America declared independence from the United Kingdom. Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state.

On 18 October 1867, the USA purchased Russian North America from Russia for 7.2 million American dollar. On 3 January 1959, Alaska became a federated state. Alaska is a state located in northwestern North America, and is considered a part of the west coast. It is the largest and the 48th most (or 3rd least) populated state. It is bordered by the Yukon Territory to the east and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the southeast. It also has a maritime border to autonomous okrug Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia.

Hawaii was the 50th state to join the union on August 21, 1959.

Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
Undersea volcanoes that erupted thousands of years ago have formed the islands of Hawaii.
Hawaii is one of the two states that does not use Daylight Savings Time. The other one being Arizona.

WW2[]

How_the_U.S._Forced_Europe_to_Pay_for_Its_Wars-2 — How the U.S. Forced Europe to Pay for Its Wars-2

How the U.S. forced Europe to pay for its wars.

America was a leading Cold War technological and economic power. The 1950s saw the nation's greatest economic boom to that date and a smaller boom occurred in the 1980s. Much of the boom was caused by the profits from rebuilding Western Europe and Japan after the WW2. America also sought to undermine the British and French empires.

America wanted undermine the British and French empires to prevent them from rivalling America after reconstruction was over. The USSR, like America saw the world as a a blank map to carve out a new empire based on the promoting tyrants like Mengistu Haile Mariam and General Augusto Pinochet and the theft of natural resources.

China wanted to set up it's own sphere of corrupted communist influence, while the Nasserites and Ba'arthists wanted to unite the fractured Arab world.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt era[]

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Harry S. Truman[]

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Dwight Eisenhower[]

Over a span of more than five decades, the economy has achieved steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.

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John F. Kennedy[]

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President Kennedy addresses the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Lyndon B. Johnson[]

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Richard Nixon[]

In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but tensions resumed when the USSR deployed troops in Afghanistan in 1979. The war drained the Soviet economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujaheddin fighters.

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Gerald Ford[]

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Jimmy Carter[]

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Ronald Reagan[]

Reagan's second term saw the revelling of the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair, a massive military build-up in an arms race with the Soviet Union and the end of the previous strategy of détente. Later negotiations then occurred with negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on reducing the size of both nations' nuclear arsenals.

George Bush snr.[]

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After the Cold War was over It became the wold's only major power by default after the fall of the USSR, but went in to sharp decline by 2010. Jealousy towards the EU and China grew as the USA slipped in to failure under Joe Biden and later neo-fascism under Donald Tump.

Dependencies[]

It has some like Puerto Rico, Wake Atoll, Johnston Atoll,Midway Island, United States Virgin Islands, Wake Atoll, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It used to include some like the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Marshall Islands.

Defence[]

The US was part of NATO. America and the Soviet Union were aware of what atomic war's horrors and sought to intimidate non-nuclear powers in to submission under pain of being nuked. As a result the UK, France and the PRC made there own nukes in self defence.

Both the USSR and USA were highly militaristic, nationalistic and aggressive to the rest of the world during the Cold War, but the USSR was way more in every ones' face over it, unlike the sly and covert US.

The AK-47 and M16 were typical of there eras and nations. The AK-47 was able to be left in a bog, be used to club people to death with and then fill a room with 100s of rounds without fail. The M16 could shoot with precision even it at long range and at a high velocity, but unfortunately it was dogged by claims that it was an unrulable prima donna.

A B-52H from flying over the desert. — A B-52H from Barksdale AFB flying over the desert.

Final_Seconds_-_Bud_Holland's_Last_Flight_(The_Fairchild_B-52_Disaster) — Final Seconds - Bud Holland's Last Flight (The Fairchild B-52 Disaster)

Final Seconds - Bud Holland's last flight (The Fairchild B-52 Disaster), a typical arrogance lead American military screwup.

Policy in the Americas[]

It was marked by things like Operation Chrome Dome, Operation Ice Worm, the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, the rise of General Augusto Pinochet and the Dew Line. Canada was traditionally an enemy of America and only Canada wanted to burry the hatchet. During the cold was tactically a Cold War ally untill the singing of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that marked a meaningful coming together of the nations and the people grew to like each other untill President Trump bragged about conquering Canada, Greenland and Mexico destroyed it all.

Canada hosted several USAF base, the Dew Line and provided a land corridor from Alaska to the 48 contiguous states of the USA.

Tension was always high after 1962, especially with the communist run island of after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Policy in Europe[]

The US was part of NATO. America was not really serious about protecting Europe and regarded it as a de facto colony. It expected it's allies to die in it's name (Australia in Vietnam War, and Turkey, the UK and Australia in the 1950–1953 Korean War), but this was largely ignored by Europe. who knew America had no intention of dying in the defence of Europe and would chicken out and abandon both Europe and it's faces in Europe to there fates.

Policy in East Asia[]

It was about containing and at times actively fighting with the communist nations such as in the 1950–1953 Korean War.

Policy in the Middle East[]

It was closely tied to protecting Saudi Arabian, Israel after the 1960s and the Shah's rule in Persia during the 1950s and 1960s.

Policy in rest of the world[]

It regarded the rest of the world with compete contempt and set up tyrants like General Augusto Pinochet and Mobutu Sese Seko.

WW3[]

After being on the wining side in WW2, America thought it could push the world around. Most of the time America wanted to force a show down with the USSR and some time thought this would justify a nuclear holocaust with any one they did not like.

The USSR feared being wiped out in another war and wars going paranoid and hiding behind constant atomic war threats. The Soviets preferred the idea of using tactical nukes and then sending in hordes of tanks in to finish off Europe and the Model East.

China, like the USSR, had been devastated by the Second World War and spent the 1950s and 1960s warring about being conquered by hostile nations. China did make it's own atomic weapons, but regarded them as too destructive to used out side of a weapon of last resort.

They all knew that, baring a malfunction or rogue missile launch team, the USA would some time cause WW3. America would be badly damaged, the Soviet Union would be mortally wounded and China would lose everything of worth. That said W. Germany, E. Germany, the UK, Poland, S. Korea and N. Korea would be totally destroyed and virtually wiped out!

Outer space and science achievements[]

The USA and USSR were the main participants in the Space Race and made many achievements during it. NASA was the best space agency during the Cold War.

Foreign affairs[]

The USA-USSR de facto 'empires' in 1970.

The US was the main antagonist in the Cold War and regularly bullied the USSR. They ruthlessly wanted to push capitalism on the world. It wanted world domination and represented everything the paranoid USSR feared.

The 1950s were marked by a highly aggressive to war with communists, but moved to the containment of communism after the Cuba Missile Crisis. The 1970s saw a period of détente between the US and Soviet Union and the PRC. America did not only want an end to communism, but also to stomp the USSR and the PRC in to the mud so as to preserve America's economic, military and geo-political dominance.

The US planned planned to undermine the communist bloc which they thought was evil and a treat to them.

Many Western nations were 'garrisoned' by the US and many Eastern Bloc's a 'protectorate' of the USSR, but in fact the US de facto soft occupied it's supposed allies and the USSR both de jure and de facto hard occupied it's supposed allies.

The US was part of NATO. America was not really serious about protecting Europe and regarded it as a de facto colony. It expected it's allies to die in it's name (as Australia in Vietnam War, and Turkey, the UK and Australia in the 1950–1953 Korean War), but this demand was largely ignored by most of Europe. They knew America had no intention of dying in the defence of Europe and would chicken out and abandon both Europe and it's forces in Europe to there fates.

American Middle Eastern policy was closely tied to protecting Saudi Arabian, Israel after the 1960s and the Shah's rule in Persia during the 1950s and 1960s.

Canada was traditionally an enemy of America and only Canada wanted to burry the hatchet untill they both joined the Allied side in WW2. During the Cold War Canada was tactically an ally untill the singing of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that marked a meaningful coming together of the nations and the people grew to like each other untill President Trump bragged about conquering Canada, Greenland and Mexico to the joy of the American people. America utterly destroyed the relationship!

It regarded the rest of the world with compete contempt and set up tyrants like General Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire.

Many nations scorned there racist attitude to Blacks and Native Americans in the 1950s and 60s, especially when they hypocritically condemned Apartheid South Africa for being racist.

Econamy[]

An early 1950s transistor using the precursor to the EIA/JEDEC part numbering system.

America was a leading Cold War technological and economic power.

The 1950s saw the nation's greatest economic boom to that date and a smaller boom occurred in the 1980s. Much of the 1950's boom was caused by the profits from rebuilding Europe and Japan after the WW2. It was the West's leading economic power 1950s and 1980s. It went on to become the dominant economic power between the 1990s, but went in to catastrophic decline in the mid 2000s, though the roots of the collapse were sown in the 1970s. It was was vastly better of than the USSR.

The USA was the undisputed technological leader of the Western nations from 1945 to the 1980s and was vastly better of than the USSR. It went on to become the dominant power in the 1990s and 2000s, but went in to decline in the early 2010s.

America was heavily polluted, a void of workers rights, inefficient and business were corrupt untill the 1950s.

Mining and the steel industry were once the world's greatest, but had collapsed by the steel and coal mining sectors had collapsed by the 1980s due to growing environmental laws concerning coal and industrial fumes, as well as florigen cooperation in the steel industry. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation started in 1857, boomed between WW1 and the and 1960s, then collapsed in 2001.

The once mighty automotive industry began to wither in the 1980s for various reasons and finally collapsed after the 2008 global recession, devastating Detroit.

The oil industry was and still is a major source of income. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a lighter and sweeter type of oil, containing less sulphur than Brent Crude (from the UK's North Sea oil fields). The American oil types are best for fuel, solvents and plastics, so most of it is exported. The US need to import heavy, sour crude because it contains more sulphur and impurities which makes it a source for asphalt, heating oils, tar and heavy fuel oil.

The 1960s and 70s were a time of unbridled technological, weapons tech and space tech advancement. The tech sector grew with the rise of IBM mainframe computers, Apple Macintosh home computers, Tandy home computers and later Microsoft computers.

Major companies included: Sprague Electric Company, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon), Union Carbide Corporation (UCC, Ucar, UCar or U'Car'), Pratt & Whitney (P&W), Tandy Corporation (Tandy), Ford Motor Company (Ford), Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem Steel), The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G or Procter & Gamble) Mars Incorporated (Mars), General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric (Westinghouse) and The Boeing Company (Boeing).

Goverment[]

The system is a de facto 2 party state with the other parties like the Libertarian Party standing little to no chance of getting more than the odd state governor now and then. Corruption, violence, intimidation and pre-desegregation racism have scared elections in the Deep South over virtually all there history. The people voted for thire president and parliament (the Senet and Congress).

Health care[]

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Agricultural issues[]

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Transport[]

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Energy[]

America had partly diversified from fossil fuels towards hydropower, the fist plant being the Niagara Falls power plant in 1896, and then moved on to have significant atomic power in the 1950s. The Three Mile Island accident put an end to any new atomic power stations for a generation.

Religion[]

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Education[]

The quality was on a par with Europe in the 1950s, but had badly declined by the 1990s in to a dumbed down pro-American brainwashing machine. This came commensurately with America's declining IQ levels.