Wikipedia: History of United States of America/Introduction

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across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The three major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the American Civil War (1861-65), the Great Depression of the 1930s and the distruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation-state. The economy is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.

across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the American Civil War (1861-65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation-state. The economy is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.

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	Revision 3 . . November 2, 2001 10:51 am by (logged).9.128.xxx [2001/9/11 too recent to put into perspective, IMHO]
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