United States of America

The United States arose as a rebellion against British rule over the thirteen colonies on the North American continent. Together with French support, the colonies achieved their independence.

Since then, American history has experienced moments of blossoming and moments of depression. The desire for control of the West brought resources and lands but was also one of the reasons for the civil war through the increase in the number of slave-owned states. The union was reunited in the Civil War and America became the most industrialized nation in the world by the early 20th century. American participation in World War I contributed to the defeat of the Central Powers.

After the war, America experienced a decade of what was then seen as economic prosperity. The collapse of Wall Street and the great fall of the stock market in the United States in 1929 interrupted the period of prosperity and brought the United States into an unprecedented crisis. The desire for change led to a landslide victory for Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy of the Democratic Party against the Republican president in 1932. Roosevelt's new deal policy proves itself despite much criticism from its various opponents but Roosevelt's desire to pack the courts led to his assassination in 1935. After the Kennedy inauguration, the new administration decided to repeal the court reform and slowed down the pace of the new deal that Roosevelt had planned. In 1936 Kennedy won a landslide victory of his own along with Vice President-elect Henry Wallace.

Following the inauguration, Kennedy led to a policy of neutrality against Western Europe through the enactment of the Neutrality Act of 1937 and the Homeland Security Act of 1938. Public pressure led to the sale of weapons to England while preserving American neutrality in the European War. In 1940, Kennedy won a narrow victory of a second candidacy while replacing Wallace with Happy Chandler after Wallace's open support for the USSR and opposition to segregation. The widespread public support for Republican Wendell Willkie's intervention policy, despite the election loss, has led Kennedy to increase arms sales to the UK to some extent.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 brought the United States directly into World War II, adopting a "Pacific First strategy" which argued that the United States should attack the Pacific front and support the defense of the western allies. The long-standing democratic rule continued with Chandler's victory in 1944. The decision to nuclear bomb two Japanese cities did not lead to Japanese surrender despite the belief of the new administration, and Chandler supported the invasion into the mainland islands of Japan as a direct response. The declaration of the German surrender in 1945, together with the Japanese surrender of 1946 led to a landslide victory in 1948 by Chandler. The Republicans returned to power with Eisenhower who promised to end the occupation of Japan in the 1952 election, a policy that Eisenhower succeeded in carrying out. Eisenhower supported Chinese entry into the United Nations as a counterweight to the shaky relations with Western Europe and the USSR. The Dulles Plan, despite helping the European economy to some extent, failed to restore US-European relations. The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 are considered to be historical American legislation. However, the new Japanese republic was unstable in every possible way, and American attempts to support it financially and militarily were unsuccessful despite Vice President Nixon's strong will. In 1960, Joseph Kennedy's son, John F. Kennedy, won a very narrow election against Nixon.

Kennedy completed the American withdrawal from Japan in late 1961 and supported the expansion of the New Deal policy of Roosevelt and his father.