United States is made up of 13 former British colony after the American Revolution after the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776. At its origin, its political structure was a confederation. But after a long debate and the formation of the Constitution of the United States, the colony was finally agreed to form a federation.
In the 19th-century U.S. forces spread across the continent of North America. Through coercion, military force and diplomacy, the U.S. gained a lot of other states in and outside the country such as Cuba and the Philippines. Even so, the country is experiencing the worst social problems. In an effort to develop the power of the whites, the Native Americans have been victimized. Through military strength, destruction, removal and construction of the reservation area, the native Indians had been excluded. To the south, there is still a system of slavery with blacks as second class citizens. Discrimination of color is one of the causes of civil war between the states-states of North and South. Although the system of slavery had been abolished after the defeat of the countries of the South, racism was rampant that continues into the mid-20th century.
During that era, the country is forging ahead into a world industrial power, which berterusan so into the 20th century, known as the glories of American Century or the American Century. In this century the expanding American influence in the international arena and become a center of innovation and technology as the best in the world. Some of the contributions of technology, including phones, televisions, computers, Internet, nuclear weapons, airplanes and space travel.
The country has experienced some bitter experiences such as the American Civil War (1861-1865) and by poor economic collapse "Great Depression" (1929-1939) who not only hit the United States in fact almost the whole world. The most recent experience of tragedy is an attack 9/11 on 11 September 2001 at the World Trade Center, New York, where nearly three thousand people were killed in terrorist attacks.
In terms of history, this country has been involved in several major world wars, the War of 1812 against Britain, and also with the British berpakta during World War I and World War II. In the 1960s-era American involvement in the Cold War against the other great powers and influence of the Soviet communism. In an effort to stem the spread of communism in Asia, the United States in the Korean War, Vietnam and the last in Afghanistan. After the Soviet collapse and disintegration, the United States rose to become an economic power and the strongest military in the world. During the 1990's, the U.S. established him as the world police and army action in Kosovo, Haiti, Somalia and Liberia, and the First Gulf War against Iraq that invaded Kuwait. After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the U.S. launched a counterattack against the Taliban in Afghanistan and dropped there, and in 2003 launched the Second Gulf War against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein's regime.
    
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April 18, 2012
