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  1. The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states ; the Cold War had begun.

  2. This is a list of wars and rebellions involving the United States of America. Currently, there are 108 wars on this list, 4 of which are ongoing. 11 major wars include the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars (which encompasses numerous armed conflicts), the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War ...

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    First Barbary War (1801–1805) Part of the ...
    United States [14] Sweden [14] Kingdom of ...
    Ottoman Tripolitania [15] Sultanate of ...
    US-allied victory
    Tecumseh's War (1810–1813) Part of the ...
    Tecumseh's Confederacy List Shawnee Red ...
    US victory
    War of 1812 (1812–1815) Location: Eastern ...
    United States Choctaw Nation Cherokee ...
    United Kingdom British North America The ...
    Inconclusive/Other Result Treaty of Ghent ...
    Creek War (1813–1814) Part of the ...
    United States Lower Creeks Cherokee ...
    US-allied victory Treaty of Fort Jackson
  3. Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated ( Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy ), and one resigned ( Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [9]

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    Name (birth–death)
    Term [14]
    January 20, 2021 – Incumbent
    Donald Trump (b. 1946) [74]
    January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
    Barack Obama (b. 1961) [73]
    January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
    George W. Bush (b. 1946) [72]
    January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009
  4. The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.

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