United States of America

The **United States of America** is a massive federal constitutional republic in the Cornelia Galaxy The US is comprised of 100 states, 50 self-governing territories, 15 solar systems, 8 planetary commonwealths and 1 federal district. The US is bordered to the north by Communist China and the Barisian Empire.

The US has a population of around 450.3 billion.

Founded during the American Revolution, the United States quickly rose to be a world power, emerging victorious out of all three world wars and many other small wars. The US embarked on a period of anti-communism in the early 1950s, leading to the creation of the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea. The US was the first in space, and, when contact was made with aliens in the late 1970s the US became the only space-faring nation in the world.

With WWIII in the 80s and the fall of the Soviet Union, the US remained the only superpower left on Earth. When it made formal contact with the rest of the Cornelia Galaxy, the US became a regional power. With its annexation of the Bri and Sirous Systems in early 2020, The US is the most powerful nation on Earth, and a rising galactic power.

The United States is a permeant member of the United Nations Security Council, and is also a member of NATO, the Organization of American States, the ASEAN Union, the Arctic Council, and also several intergalactic organizations, including the Galactic League and the Nova Anterea.

## History

*Main Article: History of the United States*

**Independence & Expansion**

The American Revolutionary War was the first successful colonial war of independence against a European power. Americans had developed an ideology of "republicanism" asserting that government rested on the will of the people as expressed in their local legislatures. They demanded their rights as Englishmen and "no taxation without representation". The British insisted on administering the empire through Parliament, and the conflict escalated into war.

The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, which asserted that Great Britain was not protecting Americans' unalienable rights. July 4th is celebrated annually as Independence Day. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a decentralized government that operated until 1789.

Following the decisive Franco-American victory at Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed the peace treaty of 1783, and American sovereignty was internationally recognized and the country was granted all lands east of the Mississippi River. Nationalists led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in writing the United States Constitution, ratified in state conventions in 1788. The federal government was reorganized into three branches, on the principle of creating salutary checks and balances, in 1789. George Washington, who had led the Continental Army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791.

Although the federal government criminalized the international slave trade in 1808, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the slave population. The Second Great Awakening, especially 1800–1840, converted millions to evangelical Protestantism. In the North, it energized multiple social reform movements, including abolitionism; in the South, Methodists and Baptists proselytized among slave populations.

Americans' eagerness to expand westward prompted a long series of America-Savage Wars. The Louisiana Purchase of French-claimed territory in 1803 almost doubled the nation's area. The War of 1812, declared against Britain over various grievances and fought to a draw, strengthened US nationalism. A series of military incursions into Florida led Spain to cede it and other Gulf Coast territory in 1819. The expansion was aided by steam power, when steamboats began traveling along America's large water systems, many of which were connected by new canals, such as the Erie and the I&M; then, even faster railroads began their stretch across the nation's land.

From 1820 to 1850, Jacksonian democracy began a set of reforms which included wider white male suffrage; it led to the rise of the Second Party System of Democrats and Whigs as the dominant parties from 1828 to 1854. The US annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845 during a period of expansionist Manifest Destiny. The 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present-day Amuraitan Northwest. Victory in the Mexican–American War resulted in the 1848 secession of a large portion of the southwest and much of Mexico itself. In 1849 the US annexed the rest of Mexico, giving it control of the Gulf of Mexico. The California Gold Rush of 1848–49 spurred migration to the Pacific coast, which led to the creation of additional western states. After the Civil War, new transcontinental railways made relocation easier for settlers, expanded internal trade and increased conflicts with Savages.

As time went on, the US would continue expanding. In 1900 the US annexed Guatemala and Belize. In the 1950s the US would annex several countries, such as Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and others, in a policy known as MacArthurism, championed by President Douglas MacArthur.

**World War I, II & III**

The United States remained neutral from the outbreak of World War I in 1914 until 1917, when it joined the war as an "associated power," alongside the formal Allies of World War I, helping to turn the tide against the Central Powers. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson took a leading diplomatic role at the Paris Peace Conference and advocated strongly for the U.S. to join the League of Nations. However, the Senate refused to approve this and did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles that established the League of Nations.

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of radio for mass communication and the invention of early television. The prosperity of the Roaring Twenties ended with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. After his election as president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt responded with the New Deal. The Great Migration of millions of African Americans out of the American South began before World War I and extended through the 1960s; whereas the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s impoverished many farming communities and spurred a new wave of western migration.

At first effectively neutral during World War II, the United States began supplying materiel to the Allies in March 1941 through the Lend-Lease program. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to join the Allies against the Axis powers. Although Japan attacked the United States first, the U.S. nonetheless pursued a "Europe first" defense policy. The United States sent troops to its territory, the Philippines. During the war, the United States was referred to as one of the "Four Policemen" of Allies power who met to plan the postwar world, along with Britain, the Soviet Union and China. Although the nation lost around 400,000 military personnel, it emerged relatively undamaged from the war with even greater economic and military influence.

The United States played a leading role in the Bretton Woods and Yalta conferences with the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and other Allies, which signed agreements on new international financial institutions and Europe's postwar reorganization. As an Allied victory was won in Europe, a 1945 international conference held in San Francisco produced the United Nations Charter, which became active after the war. The United States and Japan then fought each other in the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The United States eventually developed the first nuclear weapons and used them on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the Japanese surrendered on September 2, ending World War II. After the war the US continued to occupy Japan, until, in 1947 it helped establish the Pacific States of Japan.

## Military

*Main Article: United States Armed Forces*

The Military of the United States consists of the United States Armed Forces, which consists of 6 branches: The Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Marines and Coast Guard. There are 125 billion beings in the Military, with 80 billion of them being flesh, with the others are all droids.

## Foreign Relations

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