History of the United States

This article treats the history of the United States of America, including the prehistory of the area. The history in the strict sense begins with the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century.The Spanish, English and French then founded a number of colonies in North America. The United States fought their political independence during the American Revolution (1775-1783). The civil war (1861-1865) was a clear break in the development of the young nation.

Of an agricultural land consisting of los connected Federal States are the United States since the Second World War has become the richest and most powerful country in the world. The rise of the United States as a world power began in the mid-19th century with the expansion to the West and after the American civil war was this expansion continued at full speed. The influx of countless immigrants also fed the economic expansion of the country. With the efforts in the first and second world war was the position of the United States as a global power is assured. The emergence of this relatively young State may be called spectacular.



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[hide] *1 Pre-columbian America and the Spaniards  ==Pre-Columbian America and the Spaniards[ Edit] == Our knowledge of the period for 1607 rests solely on archaeological and Spanish sources.
 * 2 the colonial era (1607-1763)
 * 3 the battle for independence (1763-1789)
 * 4 Growth of the young nation (1789-1849)
 * 5 the abolition of slavery: the civil war (1849-1865)
 * 6 emerging world power (1865-1918)
 * 7 Isolationism (1918-1941)
 * 8 result: the second world war and the cold war (1941-1964)
 * 9 Viet Nam and social unrest (1964-1980)
 * 10 Super power (1980-1988)
 * 11 Contemporary America (1988-present)
 * 11.1 11 september
 * 11.2 financial crisis
 * 12 Literature
 * 13 external links
 * 14 Notes

The Indians, the original inhabitants of North and South America, descended from migrants from Northeastern Siberia who crossed the Bering Strait to America are drawn. Almost all Indians have black straight hair and a dark complexion. Long thought that the so-called Clovis culture about the arrival of the first people of the Bering Strait represented, but based on recent finds is plausible that people have established themselves here before.

Both in the Southwest, in the region where the current four States Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah tezamenkomen (the Anasazi) and in the Mississippiarea (Cahokia) have native cultures exist that have known a significant level of development. Cahokia was for example a big city during the European middle ages. To a high culture as in Mexico or South America is in the territory of the United States, however, did not come. In the area north of Mexico estimated that about half a million Indians lived at the time of colonisation from Europe began. [1]  Their lifestyles differed greatly: some were nomads, others lived sedentary. Both agriculture,fisheries were hunting by them as adept. There were more than six hundred Indians languages.

The first Europeans who sought to invade Northern America were the Spaniards. These had established themselves before in Mexico. At the time they explored the North, the current territory of the United States consisted mainly of vast forests, prairies and deserts. Hernando de Soto in 1539 Florida pulled inside and started an expedition through the Southeast. However, he was defeated and died in 1541 by the Mississipiërs as a result. His expedition earned not the rich booty on that he had predicted and this made for the time being, an end to European intervention. However, the contact had an important consequence: the introduction of the horse. This animal would be the life of the people of the vast prairie significantly change. Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact==The colonial era (1607-1763)[ Edit] == Map from 1685 of New Netherlandsand New England by Nicolaes Visscher.Flogging of a slave, as imagined byWilliam Blake (1796). In 1607 English settlers founded Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in what is now Virginia ; in 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers arrived inMassachusetts. Gradually expanded the English from their colonies on the East Coast; thirteen coloniesarose here in the long term.Georgia, founded in 1733, was the last. More in the Interior built the French in Quebec and Louisiana in a chain of forts. Spain also established colonies in North America, particularly in Mexico and the southwestern Florida and what became u.s. States would be.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This period was also marked by the expulsion of the native Americans, often with violence, by English and other European colonists. This built especially in the southern colonies on the East coast on a slave economy, based on the export of tobacco and other products to Europe. Usually the colonies was considered In Europe as wingewesten. Their main task was supplying raw materials. In accordance with the prevailing economic theory of mercantilism was the construction of a private industry in the Overseas Territories prohibited or thwarted. In the course of the eighteenth century philosophesbegan, the lighting thinkers, the colonial operation into question. They defended the principle of equality. Some, especially the French abbé Raynal, were even of the opinion that the process of colonization both Europe and the colonies had brought nothing but disasters and misery. Yet such views had much influence.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Europeans also performed many times mutual fight, often in cooperation with various Indian tribes, in order to strengthen or expand their colonial empires. The major powers, especially France and England, to a lesser extent Spain, strove the largest possible part of the world to master. Also to North America they carried out a bitter fight. A series of wars was the consequence. These are mostly named after the reigning monarchs. In the politics of this period dynastic interests often played a decisive role. Successively the following conflicts in the new world were fought: the King William's war (1688-1697), the Queen Anne's war (1702–1713), the King George's war (1740-1748) and the French and Indian war (1756-1763).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the war between France and England, the seven years ' war, 1756 to 1763 that also was fought in the overseas departments, France lost almost all of its colonies in North America. Now the largest competitor of the English settlers was defeated, started this the interference of the motherland as bothersome to experience. On the other hand, the British Government tried to strengthen its authority, among other things by stationing a standing army. In 1763 were a number of native American tribes in the Ohio Valley revolted under the leadership of Pontiac . This was for the British Government to ban reason to further expansion to the West. It was intended that the Appalachian mountains as the boundary, called the proclamation line, acted. The English tried through various tax measures to take to the American citizens pay to the military costs of the Empire. Plans for various tax laws and the proclamation line wore highly proclaimed at the outbreak of the war of independence in 1775. ==The struggle for independence (1763-1789)<span class="mw-editsection" len="388" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the period 1763-1789 the United States as a nation were born. Around 1763, there were 13 colonies on the northern coast of the area. Among these settlers grew a strong American self-awareness. One saw the colonies from Europe as a kind of colony, that fellow had to contribute to the payment of war debts. Right around taxation from the mother country England originated the conflict that led to the independence of the United States in 1776. The commitment to the fight with England was the question: can the motherland to the colonies taxes impose on their own initiative? The settlers said ' no ', the motherland said "Yes".

<p lang="en" len="394" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the period 1763-1775, the British Government on all kinds of taxes to the colonies:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The American colonists had to pay import duties on sugar, while smuggling strictly was punished. As a result, there were also searches and inkwartieringen.
 * 1. the sugar act (1764):

<p lang="en" len="50" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tax on each piece of paper (through a label).
 * 2. the Stamp act (1765)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Import duties on paper, lead, paint, and tea. From 1770 was this only on tea.
 * 3. The Townshend Duties (1767):

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The settlers fought the legality thereof. No taxation without representation, was a winged slogan at the time. In 1767 the English Minister Townshend came with new taxes, among other things on tea. The reaction to these measures was violently. John Dickinson fought in a pamphlet, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the legality of these new taxes. It came to a violent conflict openly and when a crowd in Boston to address the English soldiers went. The soldiers shots on the Boston Massacre and the people (to Boston massacre) was a fact. Also in other places (in 1772Rhode Island ) it came to bursts against the English. Known is also The Boston Tea Party in 1773, an action in which Patriots dressed up as Indians tea from British ships in Boston Harbor as a protest against the taxes threw on this tea. Also came the thought of independence by the English Parliament on. James Wilson came in 1774 in a pamphlet, "Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament" to the conclusion that Parliament had to say nothing about the colonies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Under pressure from the English measures came in 1774 in Philadelphia for the first time the Continental Congress met. This Congress United the 13 colonies in a partnership and it stated, inter alia, the English tax laws, The Coercive Acts, invalid. It was also called to boycott trade with England. In april 1775 followed than the final eruption. The English Commander, Sir Thomas Gagein Boston, heard that settlers have been setting a Armory in Concord, West of Boston. The Commander wanted on these stocks seize and arrest two leading Patriots; Samuel Adams and John Hancock. On the way to Concord were the English soldiers by gunfire of the settlers will be met. On the night of april 19, 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord took place and sounded there shots "taken by the world sound". The armed struggle for independence was started.

Declaration of Independence, painting by John Trumbull<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1775 the Continental Congress came together for the second time. The named George Washington, a planter from Virginia Commander-in-Chief of the American troops.The Continental Congress carried to five people to draw up a declaration of independence. To the authors of this statement were Benjamin Franklin, John Adams andThomas Jefferson. On July 4, 1776 was this statement, largely drafted by Jefferson, by the Continental Congress accepted. The United States of America were born.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Declaration of independence, ("The Declaration of Independence") suggested that all men have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Abraham Lincolnhas later stated that this statement should be the guideline for any free society.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The American ship, the USS Andrew Doria, that on november 16, 1776, with the new American flag in top, the Gallow Bay of St. Eustatius came in sailing was commissioned by Governor Johannes de Graaff eleven salutes of Fort Orange. Netherlands was the first country in the world that (de facto) recognized the United States as an independent nation.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the revolution, the American Revolutionary War raged on. Initially ran it in it not good for the settlers. However, In the autumn of 1777 general Horatio Gatesearned a victory over the English. 1550 opportunities for the settlers. France went, partly by influencing by Benjamin Franklin, the settlers against England support. Spain is also In 1780 the settlers support. As the third nation supported the Hamam, the bankers of Europe, the settlers. John Adams became the first American envoy in Netherlands and Netherlands in those days was one of the few examples of a functioning Republic and Adams reported extensively about-especially the defaults of-the old Republic. In 1781, the battle over the independence ended. On 18 October 1781 had to the English general Lord Cornwallis to Yorktown surrender to the American-French troops led by Washington, which meant the effective end of the English resistance. There were peace talks and in 1783 was signed the final peace in Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States and promised to withdraw from the newly created nation. ==Growth of the young nation (1789-1849)<span class="mw-editsection" len="379" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the independence was the us a collection of 13 States whose consistency not too large. An important unresolved question was the distribution of power between the individual States and the Union. Some wanted a strong central Government, others just a minimum power for the Federal Government in the new capital, Washington known as.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Europe was created by the French Revolution and the rise to power of Napoleon a turbulent time with long-lasting wars. The US tried to keep themselves aloof and focus their attention on expansion of their area in North America. In 1812 war broke out with England again from that soldier in a stalemate ended but that political and moral in the US was seen as victory. The last remnants of English presence in the area that the US claimed as their territory were driven out and the independence of the country was confirmed.

Lewis and Clark on the Columbia River<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the US bought Louisiana Territory in 1803 (the Louisiana Purchase) of France. France tried to prevent that largely still unexplored area would fall into British hands while the United States got complete control of the Mississippi River and were more than twice as large. The expedition of Lewis and Clark made a beginning of the mapping of the vast new territory and laid the basis for the massive expansion to the West of the later 19th century. In 1821 the Spanish once Florida obtained the US.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1836 moisture away from Mexico and Texas became an independent Republic in 1845 at his own request, after which it was incorporated into the Union. After the annexation of Texas, a border conflict between the USA and Mexico. After a skirmish took place on both the US and Mexico area that was claimed broke in the Mexican-American war from 1846. Both sides suffered heavy casualties but still knew the Americans quite easy to win and Mexico City in the fall of 1847 was taken. At the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexico hit the northern part of its territory lost to the United States. It was formed as well as the State of California among other territories which laterNew Mexico, Arizona and Nevada would be. Shortly after the fighting was in California Gold were found abandoned and soon broke from the gold rush . There was a true people's move to the West and cities were sometimes almost literally constructed in one night. Many gold seekers arrived in San Francisco visit, called "49ers". ==The abolition of slavery: the civil war (1849-1865)<span class="mw-editsection" len="403" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the years after the war with Mexico expanded the population of the US is slowly but surely to the West. The Gadsdenaankoop, the border with Mexico and treaties with Great Britain, the border with the British colonies in Canada later fixed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There was also growing discord between the industrialised North and agricultural South rapidly. The economy of the South was based on the manpower of the black slave, that of the North on the worker. A growing movement of abolitionists wanted slavery also in the States South of the Mason-Dixon line see abolished. Clandestine organizations existed (the underground railroad) that helped black slaves escape to the North and to Canada. In 1850 became a closed compromise in Congress where new States themselves were allowed to decide if they would allow or prohibit slavery. This compromise was Later declared unconstitutional. Shortly before the elections of 1856 was set up the Republican party turned against slavery. In 1860 the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Many southern States could not accept this and separated itself from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, with Richmond in Virginia as its capital. They used trailing on the right of the individual States are allowed to regulate their own affairs. After the inauguration of president Abraham Lincoln and the tensions ran high on in 1861 after shelling of the Federal depot in Fort Sumter South Carolina American civil war broke out.

General Ulysses S. Grant<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This war would be the bloodiest war from American history prove that are 4 years, ended up conceding. In the first half of the war seemed to have the advantage, the Confederation thanks in part to a superior command of the army. After the battle of Gettysburg and Ulysses s. Grant 's appointment as Commander of the army began to turn the tide. The economic dominance of the industrialized North and the maritime blockade of the Confederacy finally gave up the battle for the Northern victory. Lincoln during the war proclaimed the abolition of slavery in the States who are armed against the Union resisted and was the end of 1865 through an amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery. The South of the war and its aftermath had much to suffer. It would take until the middle of the next century would come south again on the rise. ==Emerging world power (1865-1918)<span class="mw-editsection" len="376" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == "Oregon trail"-migration from East to West <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the civil war followed a short period of Reconstruction, in which the southern States, after a period of military administration, were admitted to the Union again. The United States also began their climb to international power in this period. An unstoppable influx of European immigrants and the development of an industrial base that was unprecedented in the rest of the world laid the Foundation. The construction of railways which connected the East and west coasts, made a fast penetrating into the still wild area between them as possible. For the native Americans led to their decline, especially since the bison – largely their source of livelihood – was brought on the brink of extinction.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the last years of the 19th century were the US imperial power with possessions in the Philippines, Guam and Cuba as well as several islands in the Pacific Ocean. The defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American war lag behind. In 1917 were the us in the first world war involved. ==Isolationism (1918-1941)<span class="mw-editsection" len="368" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Disillusioned by the failure in the period after the war in order to achieve the high ideals that were promised by President Woodrow Wilson, chose the American people once again for isolationism: they turned their attention inward, away from international relations and exclusively on Internal Affairs and those of the Western hemisphere. During the turbulent twenties (the Roaring Twenties), however, the US experienced an unprecedented rise, which was brutally interrupted by the stock market crash of 1929. The depression that followed in 1933 reached a sad low point without the succeeding really better went. This despite attempts of theHooverand Roosevelt-Governments that tackling unemployment went with large-scale projects.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Initially the isolationism made sure the US military held outside the Second World War . Was there through the Lend-Lease Act money and material sent to the allies. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 made sure the USA also actively went to participate in the Second World War. ==Result: the second world war and the cold war (1941-1964)<span class="mw-editsection" len="405" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The war would be four years before the enemy was finally defeated. The Atomic attacks on Japan in 1945 were of decisive importance. Nazi-Germany was some months earlier already defeated.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The post-war era in the United States was determined by the ever more stark cold war, the arms race with the Soviet Union and the space race Sputnik crisis accelerated. The war in Korea was the first big test of the cold war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the American people completed the migration from farms to cities, began to transform the economy from a manufacturing base to a service economy and made the prosperity of a triumphant America a strong growth. At the same time were sown the seeds of the displeasure that would later become the social revolution of the late 1960s.

<p lang="en" len="753" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the Presidency of John f. Kennedy, the cold war are hottest moments during the Cuban missile crisis, in which a nuclear war was narrowly avoided when the Soviet Union under heavy pressure offensive withdrew from Cuba Atomic rockets. ==Viet Nam and social unrest (1964-1980)<span class="mw-editsection" len="380" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">While the cold war is the United States stepped in, ended up conceding the Viet Nam war. At the same time came a long-dormant social discontent in society so that women, minorities and young people upwards revolted. Few political murders (on John f. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King) caused great turmoil and the country collapsed in the largest crisis since the American civil war. President Lyndon b. Johnson (Democrat) responded with improving healthcare and anti-discrimination laws. During the 1970s the US had to do with a period of malaise caused by stagflation, the oil crisis and the first manifestations of international terrorism.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">President Richard Nixon, Republican, became embroiled in the Watergate affair in 1974 which culminated in an impending Impeachment (impeachment). Nixon drew his conclusions and resigned, as the first (and so far only) American president. His successor Gerald Ford could not name for himself and in 1976 Democrat Jimmy Carter was elected president. The u.s. experienced a further diminishing sense of self-confidence during the Ford and Carter years and the Misery index, an indicator that the economic situation said, the pan out. Critics of the us saw in this period, a sign that their nation had lost its importance and was waning and ideals. In1980 the former Hollywood actor and Governor of California, the Republican Ronald Reagan elected president. ==Super force (1980-1988)<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">President Reagan gave the American people regain his self-confidence back. The president described by opponents as Cowboy had a ongetemperd optimism and confidence in the us that he called a helderschijnende city on a hill . After a slow start, fueled the economy strong as a result of Reagan's tax measures. The downside of his policy was a rising budget deficit to record highs.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In foreign policy, according to critics, Reagan was energetic and reckless. He was a fervent anti-communist and he didn't not to use harsh language against the Soviet Union. Also, he led the arms race on the Soviet Union financially in order to get on the knees. Along with his kindred spirit and good friend Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, he saw in the in 1985 at the helm come Soviet leader Gorbachev a liaison officer.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When the Soviet Union finally fell and the Eastern bloc put out to public tender, the prosperity of the United States grew to unprecedented heights, as well as the debt burden and international entanglements of the country. Social change continued, however, slower than in the sixties, while the baby boomers put the finishing touches of their revolution. ==Contemporary America (1988-present)<span class="mw-editsection" len="375" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the collapse of the Government in the Soviet Union were the United States lost their biggest opponent. The new period had come one can as a new high regard in Pax Americana . Reagan's successor, George h. w. Bush saw itself confronted with the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq; the beginning of the Gulf war of 1990-1991. In 1991 found the US-led Operation Desert Storm drove Iraq out of Kuwait place.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1992, the Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton to win the elections. With the slogan it's the economy, stupid, he knew, with a historic low in the percentage of votes of a winning candidate, namely to be 43%, president of the United States. Under his rule the US economy continued its high growth, which had begun under Reagan, through. To benefit the European economy also knew about this.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Iraq kept Clinton often busy and the conflicts in the Balkans and Somalia required the deployment of American troops. The stakes involved in the Balkans was mainly outside the United Nations to NATO, in particular by the regulated. The Dayton peace accords ended the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina but soon were the u.s. and NATO engaged in a conflict against Serbia to Kosovo.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Clinton again won the elections In 1996 . Its leadership position to process moral got a setback by various scandals that plagued his reign. Clinton became the second president In 1999 ever that with impeachment (impeachment) faced, after he committed perjury in a case concerning sexual contacts with Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House. Clinton, however, escaped to a conviction in the Senate. ===11 september<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Twin Towers on fire after the attack<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2000 George w. Bush knew with a small majority of the electors to win the Presidency. In the beginning of his first term United States were rocked by the first attack on its own territory since the Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City by Islamic terrorists were destroyed with controlled airliners, as well as a part of the Pentagon near Washington. A fourth airliner crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers had managed to overpower the hijackers. The result of this attack indicated as such by Bush was the "fight against terrorism". The US Army at the end of 2001 threw with broad international support the toppled Taliban Government inAfghanistan .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The US fell In 2003 during the Iraq war Iraq inside. The country was supported by more than 30 other countries. Reason for this smaller support was partly the fact that the United Nations could not agree on the invasion of Iraq and many countries could not support it. After a quick victory of the American troops, Baghdad was occupied by the Americans. Indecember 2003, US forces also knew Saddam Hussein to pick. Then a growing opposition in Iraq broke from that cost many lives. Meanwhile, there was criticism of the U.s. Action arise internationally.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After Iraq formally again in 2005 was turned over to the Iraqis to return the rest initially seemed somewhat. Was promised that American troops would begin in 2006 with an overall withdrawal. This was later postponed again, particularly in view of the continuing sectarian violence in Iraq. In 2007 president Bush threw the helm in Iraq to radically with the so-called surge. The number of u.s. troops in Iraq was expanded to provide more stability to the country which is also largely succeeded. ===Financial crisis<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the end of the Bush era collapsed the global economy in a deep recession and was a fact. In the United States were spent record amounts money to stimulate the economy. In 2008, during this economically tumultuous time, was in the presidential elections for the first time a black American as president elected, senator Barack Obama. These elections also notched up his fellow party members of the Democratic Party victories before Congress and in local elections. Obama initially had broad support in both the Netherlands and abroad. Gradually, however, its popularity took off in 2009 radically, partly after the adoption of a law in Congress that the American health care system reformed and the spiralling record releases and national indebtedness. This waning popularity was underlined by some electoral defeats of the Democrats in districts where they normally obtain a large majority. A conservative protest movement that if the tea-party movement became known. Also under independent voters took his popularity off.

<p lang="en" len="301" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">International State of Obama's Presidency in the sign of a more traditionally not known as a friend of oncoming policy towards countries such as Russia and Iran as well as a rapprochement with Muslim countries and groups while there is a harder line against allies.