United States of America

Flag of the United States since 1994

The **United States of America** (also known as **The United States**, **The States, America**, **USA**, or simply **The US**), is a federal presidential constitutional republic located on the North American continent on Earth. It is bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The US is made up of 51 states, 10 overseas territories, and a federal district which is its capital, Washington, D.C. Its largest city, as well as Earth's most sophisticated and diverse financial center is New York City, New York.

Following its independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The US slowly became an industrialized world power, fought in both the First and Second World Wars before emerging as on of the world's superpowers alongside its rival, the Soviet Union. Both countries continued to politically butt heads with one another until 1989, when tensions began to ease.

In 1991, the United States was the first country in the world to come into contact with beings from beyond Earth. Under the leadership of President George HW Bush, the U.S. formed an alliance with the Galactic Republic, and became a pivotal member of the Terran Alliance. In 1992, the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving the U.S. as Earth's sole hyper power and officially ending the Terran Cold War. During the Intergalactic Cold War, the U.S. found a new enemy in the form of radical Islamic terrorism after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

During the Galactic Civil War, the U.S. and the rest of Earth waged war against the Galactic Empire, siding with the Rebel Alliance in the process. They were subsequently invaded by Imperial forces, but successfully repelled all attempts the Empire made to overthrow the country. Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. along with Russia, the United Kingdom, and their allies signed the Galactic Concordance with the defeated Empire and newly established New Republic.

Since 1991, the United States maintains the title of 'World Policemen', as its strives to protect the world from terrorism, international, and extraterrestrial threats. Nonetheless with mixed results as being Earth's No.1 most powerful nation ain't easy job.

## History

### Independence

Prior to being its own sovereign nation. The U.S. were originally 13 overseas colonies ruled by Great Britain. Most Americans initially enjoyed living under British rule and its policy of salutary neglect, which allowed them to basically rule themselves. However by 1773, the British started to tax and enforce its rule on the colonies after a lengthy war with Britain's rival, France. American boycotted British goods, boycotts turned to riots, and riots turned into a full scale revolution against the British crown. The French took advantage of this, and assisted the American in their war. By 1781, the war was all but a lost cause for Great Britain, and in 1783 recognized the United States as an independent nation.

### Forming a Perfect Union

After independence, the United States formed into a loose confederation under the recently drafted Articles of Confederation. Unfortunately the Articles' laws were ineffective after 9 years and the modern-day US Constitution was drafted. Turning the US from a confederation into a federal republic.

### Expansion, War of 1812, and Civil War

Over the course of the early 19th century, the US expanded its territory west until it stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the west, to the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Settlers and pioneers began to settle in these new regions hoping to find better lives or to make their fortunes. The state of California would become a hotspot for gold.

In 1812, the United States would go to war against Great Britain once more after a series of tariffs and impressment of American sailors into the British navy. The war would last from 1812-1815, ending with a treaty signed by both nations.

In 1861, America would experience its first and only civil war when 11 southern states (who practiced slavery) seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy would gain a few victories during the early years of the war, but the tide would turn against them in 1863, when the Union defeated the Confederate Army in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederates continued to suffer one defeat after another, until it would ultimately be crushed by the Union in 1865, thus reunifying the country and ending the war, plus installing the 13th amendment on the constitution outlawing slavery. Shortly after US President Abraham Lincoln, who led the Union during the war, would be assassinated by Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln would be the first US president killed while in office.

### World War I

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalists, sparking the First World War. The war would engulf all of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The US declared itself neutral at the start of the war, not wanting to get involved in European affairs. But after the use of unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Empire, and a telegram sent to Mexico asking for it to invade the southeast US border. The United States declared war on the Central Powers, joining Great Britain, France, and the rest of the Entente. By 1918, the Central powers called for an armistice, ending the war.

### Roaring Twenties and Great Depression

Following the end of the First World War, the US entered an age of prosperity. The nation as a whole was barely effected by the war, and its economy was booming. Nightclubs, parties, and an overall sense of happiness swept over the nation. Music such as jazz and swing became popular and were played at local nightclubs and parties. Unfortunately, the 1920s marked the end of the American Wild West, and give birth to the American Mafia, also known as "La Cosa Nostra". In the Mafia, crime families would fight over territory, money, and business, while they also committed acts of extortion, loan sharking, and more. The mob would thrive until the US Government began cracking down on then, which would create the mobs downfall in the 1980s.

In 1929, the economic prosperity the US was enjoying came to a sudden halt after the stock market crashed. Thousands of people lost their jobs, unemployment was at an all-time high, and economy spiraled downwards. Luckily under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the country began to heal itself thanks to FDR's New Deal Policy, slowly putting the US back on its feet.

### World War II

Germany, having felt humiliated after its defeat in the First World War. Secretly began to rearm its military and declared war in 1939, starting the Second World War. The Germans successfully took control of Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and all of France by the end of 1940. The US decided to remain neutral, but nonetheless held sympathy toward the Allies. They then began to send weapons and supplies to Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the later of which was next on Germany's list for invading. On December 7, 1941, the US would finally enter the world on the side of the Allies after the Empire of Japan attacked their naval base at Pearl Harbor. The US would go on to be the first country to develop nuclear weapons, and aid in defeat both Germany and Japan by late 1945.

### Cold War

Following its victory in the Second World War, the US found itself as one of the world's economic, political, and influential superpowers alongside one of its allies, the Soviet Union. Unlike the US, the USSR was a socialist totalitarian state aimed at spreading communism and its own influence around the world. Fearful of the USSR's influence, the US entered into a 'cold war' with its newfound rival in 1947, a rivalry that would last for throughout the 20th century. Both sides would set up their own alliances with other nations, with the US creating NATO in 1949, which consisted of the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Canada and many other western European nations, while the USSR founded the Warsaw Pact, which consisted of every eastern European country that the Soviets liberated following the Second World War. Both superpowers would encourage armed conflicts in many Third World countries to try and get the upper hand on one another, some places included Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Central America, and Cuba. The US and USSR also engaged in a nuclear arms race, with each nation threatening to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against one another. Despite fear of a Third World War, both superpowers did work towards an ease of hostilities between each other, as both nations were members of the United Nations, and its Security Council. During the Cold War, on November 22, 1963, US President John F. Kennedy would be assassinated in Dallas, Texas; making him the 4th US president killed in office after President William McKinley in 1901.

The US also faces the Period of Civil Rights movement in the 1950s when the African-American civil rights groups were fighting for Racial equality as a citizens of the United States of America and oppose any racial descrimination by the various racist individuals, one prominent leader is Martin Luther King Jr. who said the words " I Have a dream " in his speech on Washington DC in August 28, 1963.

### End of the Cold War

By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was on the verge of decline. Many internal issues began to pop up within its borders, and its grip on the Warsaw Pact was loosened as a result. Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, brought about a series of reforms that slowly turned the USSR from a socialist state, to a capitalist society, while also giving its citizens democracy. In 1989, the United States and the Soviet Union announced the end of their rivalry and animosity between one another, bringing an end to the Cold War.

### First Contact

By the early 1990s, the United States and the world had begun to enjoy the small era of peace following the end of the Cold War. However in 1991, the US would be the first country in the world to make contact with extraterrestrials. A task-force sent by the Galactic Republic from the Andromeda galaxy arrived at Earth with the message of an impending invasion by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Fearing not only their own survival but the survival of the world, US President George HW Bush agreed to an alliance with the Republic, alerting their closest allies and enemies of the current situation, and to setup a meeting with UN Security Council. In exchange, the Republic and Jedi Order would give them weapons and help train a Terran Jedi Order.

### The Road to War

Following a meeting with the United Nations, the United States along with a total of 128 countries from around the world agreed to form an alliance with the Republic. 38 countries remained neutral, while Libya, North Korea, and Iraq had abstained from the vote entirely, which was just one step away from joining the Separatists.

Knowing that the Republic's Jedi Order couldn't train a Terran Jedi Order fast enough for active use. The UN and Republic opted to create the Anti-Sith Assault Team, a group of soldiers from several of Earth's countries that were to be trained in lightsaber combat. The United States sent Samuel Adams of the US Navy SEAL Team Six, Tyler Hall of the US Army Delta Force, and Grant Wilson of the US Army Delta Force to be part of the new team, with Adams as their leader.

It was also around this time, December 25, 1991 that President Bush and his administration celebrated Christmas at the White House, with delegates from the Republic joining them.

### Separatists Invasion

In January 1992, upon getting news that the Separatists were near Earth. The countries of Libya, North Korea, and Iraq openly expressed happiness, showing that the hope to join the CIS upon their arrival. In response, the UN branded them outlaw regimes and ordered for the removal of their leaders. The United States, along with members of the Republic's 501st Legion under General Anakin Skywalker and Commander Ahsoka Tano took part in the removal of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, while North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung and Lybian dictator Muammar Gaddafi, were also arrested.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union were the first targets for the Separatist invasion. Both countries were capable of destroying most of the CIS's bombers and troops. The Separatists concentrated on the US cities of San Francisco and New York, but were ultimately crushed by a joint US-Republic-Canadian counterattack. The US also sent troops and armor to other of the Separatists landing points, including Nigeria, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East. After a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Terrans and the Republic, along with the arrival of Republic reinforcements, the Separatists were forced to retreat, earning the US and her allies victory.

### Forming a better Alliance and the Clone Wars

The United States quickly approved the ratification of the Terran Accords and a declaration of war on the CIS, and joined the Terran Alliance soon after. The US would send troops to the Andromeda galaxy to fight in the Clone Wars and aid the Republic in their fight.

Then on January 15, 1992, after 80 years of existence the Soviet Union collapsed after being weakened by Gorbachev's reforms and the Separatist invasion, splitting into independent nations with Russia being made its successor. This left the United States as the world's sole superpower, but they did provide aid to the former Soviet republics.

It was also around this time that the US would join the Council of Five. Which consisted of the US, UK, France, Russia, and China.

During the Clone Wars, the US and the Terran Alliance took an interest into the Star Forge. An ancient superweapon that was capable of creating weapons and starships via the power of the star. Knowing that they can't survive on the Republic forever, the Alliance and the US began an investigate into the Star Forge's last known location, which led to the discovery of its debris. The wreckage of the Star Forge was taken back to the Milky Way galaxy for research, and soon after, construction of a Terran version would began in 1993.

It is also around this time that Terran Jedi Order would begin construction of a Jedi Temple in the state of West Virginia.

### Late Clone Wars

#### Temple Bombing

In 1993, the Jedi Temple on Coruscant was bombed by an unknown individual. The US sent members of the FBI to investigate the Temple bombings alongside the Jedi Order. During the investigation, Ahsoka Tano was accused of being a conspirator and appeared to have killed the bomber. ASAT member Samuel Adams attempts to keep her out of her out of Republic hands, but she is captured nonetheless. Adams and Anakin Skywalker then work together to find the real murderer, while US Attorney General William Barr defended Ahsoka before the Republic court. Barr's defense of Ahsoka works well, and the Republic attempts to acquit her, only for Skywalker and Adams to reveal the real culprit: Barriss Offee. Barriss pleads guilty, claiming the Jedi Order was going down the wrong path and was the cause of the Clone Wars, afterwards she is arrested. Ahsoka is later released and all charges on her are dropped, the Jedi then offer her to return to the Order. Having been turned back on people she knew her whole life and now disillusioned, Ahsoka decides to leave the Jedi Order. Adams and Grant Wilson take Ahsoka back to Earth, where she starts residing with Adams family in America. Ahsoka adjusts to life in America, and applies for college with help of US President George HW Bush. The incident as a whole starts to make the Terran Alliance grow suspicious of the Republic's internal affairs.

#### Palpatine

The Terran Alliance began to grow suspicious of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine by late 1993, and launched numerous investigations into his position of power. The last straw for them was in 1994, when Terran forces retrieved the rogue clone trooper Fives, whom revealed the secret of the clone's inhibitor chips. Realizing that Palpatine was no longer trustworthy, the US and the Council of Five ordered for Palpatine's assassination. Nonetheless their attempt fails and Palpatine's (really Darth Sidious) master-plan comes to fruition. On June 24, 1994, Order 66 is executed and all the clones within the Grand Army of the Republic turn on the Jedi Order, killing many of them. The US and Terran Alliance quickly scrambled enough troops to rescue surviving Jedi and capture clones to have their inhibitor chips removed. Most of Jedi High Council is rescued along with various knights, padawans, and younglings, with some of them taking refuge on Earth in America. Various clone units are also captured as well.

### End of the Clone Wars

The United States was one of many countries that began to immediately pull all of its troops out of the Andromeda galaxy, while also dispatching Adams and Tyler Hall to work with Jedi Masters Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda to kill Darth Sidious and Anakin Skywalker, who was the recently appointed Darth Vader. Both Adams and Yoda are unsuccessful in killing Sidious, while Hall and Kenobi are able in leave Vader in critical condition. Yoda and Kenobi go into hiding, while Adams and Hall returned to Earth. With the destruction of the Jedi Order, and complete disarray of its military. The Republic reorganizes itself into the Galactic Empire, and Sidious declares the Clone Wars over. On Earth, the United States and the rest of Terran Alliance pledge to bring an end to the Empire and Sidious' rule.

### Intergalactic Cold War

#### Expansion

The era of the Intergalactic Cold War was a time of great distress and fear for the Terran Alliance and the Galactic Empire. But was also a time of prosperity, expansion, and scientific achievement. The Repulse-class Battlecruiser was commissioned in 1995. Other new ships included the London and Baltimore-class Stat Destroyer variants, the Freedom-class Super Star Destroyer being constructed later on. The Terran Alliance also discovered habitable planets including Torfa and Konar, which who later joined the alliance. The Terran Star Forge was also completed in 2004, and construction of new Terran Star Destroyers began construction almost immediately.

#### Planetary Affairs

As the Terran Alliance was expanding, the United States focused on more problems on Earth, while contributing to the new planetary government. A federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed in mid-1995, the Terran Jedi Temple was opened in West Virginia, and the US also began to see a new enemy in the form of terrorism. Bill Clinton became the new president in 1997, and George W. Bush succeeded him in 2001.

#### 9/11 and Foreign Affairs

On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by Al-Qaeda forces who hijacked passenger airplanes and flew them into major American cities. Including the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and an unknown target that was thought to have been either the White House or the Capitol building. Four planes were used in the attack, with the fourth being the one that never reached its target, as the passengers managed to take back the plane. Angered by the attack and the rise of terrorism, the United States declared a 'war on terror' against all terrorist networks, an act that was supported by its allies and the Terran Alliance. Afghanistan, which was under the control of the terrorist cells such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, was invaded by the U.S. to remove them from power. In May 2011, the War on Terror would endure a major victory when Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in Pakistan.

In 2004, the U.S. sent aid to the southern Asian countries that were affected by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake that caused the largest tsunami in world history. The US also sent aid to Haiti in 2010, after the latter suffered from a deadly earthquake as well.

#### Domestic Affairs and Refugees

The U.S. economy boomed after the Clone Wars, which in turn benefited the Terran Alliance's rearmament policy should the Empire return to their world. The U.S. also gained refugees from the Andromeda Galaxy, mostly Twi'leks who were escaping slavery at the hands of the Empire. Most settled in Utah before moving to Arizona, where they formed their own city-state "New Lessu", which was later admitted into the Union as the 51st state.

However, not everyone in America liked the idea of extraterrestrial U.S. citizens, with some going to extreme and radical measures to remove them. In 1995, during the arrival of more Twi'lek refugees in New Lessu, xenophobic Americans formed the Terran Liberation Front and staged several domestic terrorist attacks, although they were eventually defeated by local armed civilians and members of the ASAT Team and the Terran Jedi Order.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States, causing severe damage.

## Politics and Government

The United States is a federal republic of 51 states, a federal district, five territories and several uninhabited island possessions. It is the Earth's oldest surviving federation. It is a federal republic and a representative democracy "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law."

### Federal Government

The federal government is run under system of check and balances that are defined in the US Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document. The government itself is split into three branches.

#### Legislative

The bicameral US Congress, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, makes federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the government. The US Congress is divided into two houses: the Senate (Upper House), and the House of Representatives (Lower House). The Vice President of the United States runs Congress.

#### Executive

The President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces. The President can veto legislative bills before they become law (subject to congressional override). Along with the President is a group of advisors known as the Cabinet, which the President can select who can be on (subject to Senate approval) and other officials, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies.

#### Judicial

The Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges are appointed by the president with Senate approval, interpret laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional.

### Political Divisions

Since its founding, the United States has operated mainly under a two-party system. The two major political parties currently are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In American Culture, the Democrats are considered liberal, while the Republicans are considered conservative. Other known parties from US history include the Progressive Party, Federalist Party, Whig Party, Independent Party, and Libertarian Party.

## Military

*See: US Armed Forces.*

The **United States Armed Forces** or **US Armed Forces** are the military forces of the United States of America. The Commander-in-Chief is the President It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard. Also the US Armed Forces is one of the founding members of NATO in 1949 during the Cold War and later the Terran Alliance in 1991 after making it's first contact with the Galactic Republic, alongside with it's NATO allies as well as rival countries such as the USSR (which later become Russian Federation) and the People's Republic of China. The majority of the Terran alliance are comes from the US Military consisting of which 4.1% of it's personnel with a total of 2,000,000 personnel.

## States (Date Established)

* Alabama (Dec 1819)
* Alaska (Jan 1959)
* Arizona (Feb 1912)
* Arkansas (Jun 1836)
* California (Sep 1850)
* Colorado (Aug 1876)
* Connecticut (Jan 1788)
* Delaware (Dec 1787)
* Florida (Mar 1845)
* Georgia (Jan 1788)
* Hawaii (Aug 1959)
* Idaho (Jul 1890)
* Illinois (Dec 1818)
* Indiana (Dec 1816)
* Iowa (Dec 1846)
* Kansas (Jan 1861)
* Kentucky (Jun 1792)
* Louisiana (Apr 1812)
* Maine (Mar 1820)
* Maryland (Apr 1788)
* Massachusetts (Feb 1788)
* Michigan (Jan 1837)
* Minnesota (May 1858)
* Mississippi (Dec 1817)
* Missouri (Aug 1821)
* Montana (Nov 1889)
* Nebraska (Mar 1867)
* Nevada (Oct 1864)
* New Hampshire (Jun 1788)
* New Jersey (Dec 1787)
* New Lessu (1994)
* New Mexico (Jan 1912)
* New York (Jul 1788)
* North Carolina (Nov 1789)
* North Dakota (Nov 1889)
* Ohio (Mar 1803)
* Oklahoma (Nov 1907)
* Oregon (Feb 1859)
* Pennsylvania (Dec 1787)
* Rhode Island (May 1790)
* South Carolina (May 1788)
* South Dakota (Nov 1889)
* Tennessee (Jun 1796)
* Texas (Dec 1845)
* Utah (Jan 1896)
* Vermont (Mar 1791)
* Virginia (Jun 1788)
* Washington (Nov 1889)
* West Virginia (Jun 1863)
* Wisconsin (May 1848)
* Wyoming (Jul 1890)

## Presidents

1. George Washington (1789–1797)
2. John Adams (1797–1801)
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
4. James Madison (1809–1817)
5. James Monroe (1817–1825)
6. John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
7. Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
8. Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)
9. William Henry Harrison (March-April 1841)
10. John Tyler (1841–1845)
11. James Polk (1845–1849)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
13. Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
14. Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)
15. James Buchanan (1857–1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865, assassinated)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
20. James Garfield (March 4-September 9, 1881, assassinated)
21. Chester Arthur (1881–1885)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885–1889)
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
24. Grover Cleveland (1893–1897)
25. William McKinley (1897–1901, assassinated)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
27. William H. Taft (1909–1913)
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
29. Warren Harding (1921–1923)
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
31. Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
33. Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
34. Dwight Eisenhower (1953–1961)
35. John F. Kennedy (1961–1963, assassinated)
36. Lyndon Johnson (1963–1969)
37. Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
38. Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
39. Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
41. George H. W. Bush (1989–1997)
42. William J. Clinton (1997–2001)
43. George W. Bush (2001–2009)
44. Barack Obama (2009–2021)
45. Donald J. Trump (2021-2028)

## See Also

* Soviet Union
* Russian Federation
* People's Republic of China
* United Kingdom
* France
* Germany

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*
* *The Terran Alliance: A Changing World*
* *When the World Stopped Turning*
* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back*

## External link

* *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States*