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The United States of America is a sovereign state stretching across North America between Canada and Mexico, Alaska in the continent's northwest, the mid-Pacific archipelago of Hawaii and several territories in the Pacific & Caribbean. Founded by European émigrés rebelling from British control in the 1700s, the US spread across the continent by conquest and land-purchase to become the most powerful country on the planet after the Cold War in the 1900s.

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Why didn't the USA move to the left after WWII?

This is a great question, and I've decided to write my own answer since the existing ones fail to mention a few facts. Reason #1 should be J. Edgar Hoover. Even before Truman's creating the 'nationa …
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What evidence exists to say whether or not FDR was planning to use the Atomic Bomb just as T...

I'm basing this answer on J.Samuel Walker's book 'Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan' (revised edition of 2005, ISBN 080-785-60-79). I'm indebted to Alex We …
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