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The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [365] [373] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
The United States Census estimates the country's population was 76 million. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida makes its U.S. debut. [1] January 5 – Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University discovers the cause of the Earth's magnetism. January 8 – President of the United States William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in the Northern United States and the Western United States saw the U.S. become the world's dominant economic, industrial, and agricultural power. The average annual income (after inflation) of non-farm workers grew by 75% from 1865 to 1900, and then grew another 33% by 1918.
1919 – United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations; 1919 – 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition; 1919 – Black Sox Scandal during that year's World Series, with the fallout lasting for decades; 1919 – Sherwood Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio; 1919 – Palmer Raids
United States forces, together with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, were also instrumental in collapsing Adolf Hitler's government in Germany and deposing Benito Mussolini in Italy. In the end of World War II, the U.S. government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War.
History of the United States Air Force; History of the United States Army. History of the United States Army Special Forces; History of the United States Coast Guard; History of the United States Marine Corps; History of the United States Navy. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (book series) History of the United States ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
By the end of Polk's term, the country had claimed most of the present-day Southwestern United States. The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland in 1845, the Independent Treasury was reestablished in 1846, and the Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846 as the United States National Museum.