Noun

the United States

  1. (singular) Shortened form of the United States of America.
  2. (plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
  3. (military) Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including the following:
    • US territories, possessions, and commonwealths; and
    • Other areas over which the US Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has exclusive authority or defense responsibility

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Mon Jun 15 15:21:01 2009

The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific.

At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 306 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.

In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world.

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Mon Jul 6 00:39:37 2009

How does United States respond to developing threats in other countries?
Q. In what ways do they react? How do we know when countries will attack? We cannot base it upon theory, but we can't attack them without evidence. What does United States do?
Asked by Emily F - Wed May 13 00:24:45 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Generally speaking, the best solution is to try to turn a potential foe into a friend via direct or indirect diplomatic means. But, because people can be liars or change their minds, we also need to develop military options while we attempt to establish diplomatic solutions. The military option must be the last option but it must be an option.
Answered by Badger Fan - Wed May 13 01:29:25 2009

When did the United States start to enter the Vietnam War?
Q. Did the United States start to get their men to fight in the Vietnam war in the 60s or 70s? Why did they decide to enter that war?
Asked by Sugar - Mon Feb 23 02:47:30 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. On 2 August 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while sailing in the waters of the Tonkin, was attacked by three Communist patrol boats, two managed to launch torpedoes, but missing the target, it launched the third one that does not explode and was later sunk. On receipt of the report of this "incident" Johnson responded. Direct TV announced that the North Vietnamese aggression would not be left unpunished, and ordered retaliatory air strikes against enemy coastal targets. On 6 August 1964 the U.S. Congress approved the "Resolution of the Gulf of Tonkin", with which it authorized the President to take all necessary measures to repel the attacks against U.S. forces. by the fustigador
Answered by Historian - Mon Feb 23 03:22:59 2009

What do you like about traveling in the United States and do not like about traveling in the United States?
Q. In your opinion, what do you like about traveling in and throughout the United States of America and what do you not like about traveling in the United States of America? What I like about traveling in the United States of America is that there are so many great places to see and visit but what I do not like is that you cannot see all the great places to visit in America in your lifetime.
Asked by Mr. Knowledgeable VI - Fri May 9 22:21:56 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I live in Calif. and seen every part of it and love it, been to Arizona, Nev. & Illinios. I would want to see the whole America first then visit other countries. We have more to see and do here. I have a cousin visited from Australia he loved it he asked why do people here go spend their money at other countries when its so beautiful here more to see.
Answered by cali - Sat May 10 02:34:04 2008

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By Americans

  • "America is the land of the uncommon man. It is the land where man is free to develop his genius -- and to get its just rewards."
  • "America - where even the son of a President can grow up to be President."
  • "America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.