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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. Spanish explorers were the first Europeans, after the Norse, to reach the present-day United States, after Christopher Columbus 's expeditions (beginning in 1492) established possessions in the Caribbean, including the modern-day U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, and parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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  4. This list tracks and ranks the population of the top 10 largest cities and other urban places in the United States by decade, as reported by each decennial United States census, starting with the 1790 Census.

  5. Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.

  6. The history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States from the colonial era to the present day. Throughout U.S. history , the country experienced successive waves of immigration , particularly from Europe (see European Americans ) and later on from Asia (see Asian Americans ) and Latin America (see ...