United States

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Sources

1. WebsiteAddress to a Joint Session of Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany
2. BookThe First World War

Relations

member of:

• Allies

  Sources: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

• NATOsince 4 Apr 1949

  Sources: The North Atlantic Treaty

location of:

• Brooklyn

  Sources: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

• California

  Sources: Who Killed the Electric Car?

• Camp David

  Sources: Nixon Ends Convertibility of U.S. Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls

• Charleston, South Carolina

  Sources: The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

• Chicago

  Sources: The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

• Dayton, Ohio

  Sources: The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

• Denver

  Sources: The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

• Detroit

  Sources: The Moving Assembly Line and the Five-Dollar Workday

• Elizabeth, New Jersey

  Sources: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

• Houston

  Sources: Ideal X

• Lake Placid, New York

  Sources: Olympedia: Olympic Games

• New Orleans

  Sources: The Oxford Companion to Chess

• Omaha

  Sources: Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869

• Philadelphia

  Sources: The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

• Pittsburgh

  Sources: The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907

• Port of Long Beach

  Sources: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

• Port of Los Angeles

  Sources: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

• Skagway

  Sources: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

• St. Louis

  Sources: Olympedia: Olympic Games

ally of:

• Kingdom of Francesince 6 Feb 1778

  Sources: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789, The American Revolution: A History

• South Vietnamsince 26 Oct 1955

  Sources: Vietnam: A History, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975

• United Kingdom

  Sources: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

enemy of:

• Al-Qaeda

  Sources: The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, al-Qaeda

• Confederate States of America

  Sources: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

• Empire of Japan

  Sources: Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

• German Empire6 Apr 1917 – 11 Nov 1918

  Sources: Address to a Joint Session of Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany, The First World War

• Kingdom of Great Britain19 Apr 1775 – 3 Sep 1783

  Sources: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789, The American Revolution: A History

• Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line

  Sources: The Iranian Hostage Crisis, Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic

central bank:

• Federal Reserve

  Sources: The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

financially regulated by:

• Securities and Exchange Commission

  Sources: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

led by:

• Abraham Lincoln4 Mar 1861 – 15 Apr 1865

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Andrew Jackson4 Mar 1829 – 4 Mar 1837

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Andrew Johnson15 Apr 1865 – 4 Mar 1869

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Barack Obama20 Jan 2009 – 20 Jan 2017

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Benjamin Harrison4 Mar 1889 – 4 Mar 1893

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Bill Clinton20 Jan 1993 – 20 Jan 2001

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Calvin Coolidge2 Aug 1923 – 4 Mar 1929

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Chester A. Arthur19 Sep 1881 – 4 Mar 1885

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Donald Trump20 Jan 2017 – 20 Jan 2021

  His first term; he returned in 2025.

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Dwight D. Eisenhower20 Jan 1953 – 20 Jan 1961

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sources: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

• Franklin Pierce4 Mar 1853 – 4 Mar 1857

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• George H. W. Bush20 Jan 1989 – 20 Jan 1993

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• George W. Bush20 Jan 2001 – 20 Jan 2009

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• George Washington30 Apr 1789 – 4 Mar 1797

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Gerald Ford9 Aug 1974 – 20 Jan 1977

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Grover Cleveland4 Mar 1885 – 4 Mar 1889

  His first term; he returned in 1893.

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Harry S. Truman

  Sources: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

• Herbert Hoover4 Mar 1929 – 4 Mar 1933

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• James A. Garfield4 Mar 1881 – 19 Sep 1881

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• James Buchanan4 Mar 1857 – 4 Mar 1861

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• James K. Polk4 Mar 1845 – 4 Mar 1849

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• James Madison4 Mar 1809 – 4 Mar 1817

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• James Monroe4 Mar 1817 – 4 Mar 1825

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Jimmy Carter20 Jan 1977 – 20 Jan 1981

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Joe Biden20 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2025

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• John Adams4 Mar 1797 – 4 Mar 1801

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• John F. Kennedy20 Jan 1961 – 22 Nov 1963

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• John Quincy Adams4 Mar 1825 – 4 Mar 1829

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• John Tyler4 Apr 1841 – 4 Mar 1845

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Lyndon B. Johnson22 Nov 1963 – 20 Jan 1969

  Sources: Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Martin Van Buren4 Mar 1837 – 4 Mar 1841

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Millard Fillmore9 Jul 1850 – 4 Mar 1853

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Richard Nixon20 Jan 1969 – 9 Aug 1974

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Ronald Reagan20 Jan 1981 – 20 Jan 1989

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Rutherford B. Hayes4 Mar 1877 – 4 Mar 1881

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Theodore Roosevelt14 Sep 1901 – 4 Mar 1909

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Thomas Jefferson4 Mar 1801 – 4 Mar 1809

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Ulysses S. Grant4 Mar 1869 – 4 Mar 1877

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Warren G. Harding4 Mar 1921 – 2 Aug 1923

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• William Henry Harrison4 Mar 1841 – 4 Apr 1841

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• William Howard Taft4 Mar 1909 – 4 Mar 1913

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• William McKinley4 Mar 1897 – 14 Sep 1901

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Woodrow Wilson4 Mar 1913 – 4 Mar 1921

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

• Zachary Taylor4 Mar 1849 – 9 Jul 1850

  Sources: U.S. Presidents, Past Inaugural Ceremonies

sponsored:

• Afghan mujahideen

  Sources: Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979–89, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

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    Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy15 Sep 2008
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    The Arab oil embargo17 Oct 1973
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  • The first Soviet atomic bomb29 Aug 1949
  • Korean War25 Jun 1950
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    Ivy Mike, the first hydrogen bomb1 Nov 1952
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  • Sputnik4 Oct 1957
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    The U-2 is shot down1 May 1960
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    Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie27 Oct 1961
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  • The Partial Test Ban Treaty5 Aug 1963
  • Mass killings in IndonesiaOct 1965
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    The Tet Offensive31 Jan 1968
  • The Paris Peace Accords27 Jan 1973
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    The coup in Chile11 Sep 1973
  • The fall of Saigon30 Apr 1975
  • The Helsinki Final Act1 Aug 1975
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