The United States of America is the leading superpower of the Western Bloc 🦅. It was established in 1776 through a revolution against British imperial rule, marking the birth of a republic rooted in Enlightenment ideals and settler colonial ambition. Its political foundations, radical for the 18th century, enabled the emergence of a dynamic capitalist economy and an expansive frontier society. Throughout the 19th century, the United States underwent rapid territorial, industrial, and demographic expansion, tempered only by its internal contradictions—chiefly the institution of slavery and sectional divides between North and South.
The American Civil War (1861–1865) proved undecisive. Immensely destructive and inconclusive, it failed to resolved the question of slavery, though it did result in industrial consolidation of the North. Freed from the constraints of an agrarian, slaveholding elite, the northern and western United States accelerated its growth, becoming by the turn of the century a leading economic and technological power. Waves of European immigration, the exploitation of natural resources, and the development of corporate capitalism helped transform it into a modern state capable of projecting influence far beyond its borders. It would not be until the Continuation War (1891-1893) that the continent would finally free itself of slavery, and that the United States would be together as one, with The Confederate States of America partially integrated into its own workings.
World War I marked the United States' first major intervention in European affairs, spearheaded by President Theodore Roosevelt. Initially welcomed as liberators by the Entente, American forces fought alongside the British and French with considerable enthusiasm. However, the collapse of France and the armistice imposed upon Britain by the victorious Central Powers left American ambitions checked, and the result was a pronounced retreat into isolationism. The economic turmoil of The Great Depression further entrenched this posture, giving rise to a new inward-looking political consensus. During The Red Orchestra or the Interwar Period, the United States indirectly supported every rebellion and insurgency against the German Empire, as well as The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which promised to counter German imperialism in Europe.
This stance proved unsustainable as the scales tipped, and it was now the Soviets which had isolated and surrounded Berlin with its own communist allies, even The Danubian Federation and particularly Neosocialist France. With the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the growing threat of Japanese expansionism in the Pacific, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration orchestrated a gradual re-engagement with global affairs. American support for the embattled Allies—initially through lend-lease and financial aid—transformed into full-scale mobilisation following the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a founding member of the Allied Forces, the institution which later became the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)), the United States played a leading role in the European and Pacific theatres.
The Manhattan Program, spearheaded by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, resulted in the development of the first nuclear weapons. Their eventual deployment by both Germany and the Soviet Union marked a gruesome conclusion to the war and inaugurated the era of atomic diplomacy. Although the Allies emerged partially victorious, the subsequent division of the world into ideological blocs ensured that peace would remain fragile and contingent, and the world found itself thrown into the Cold War.
As of the mid-1960s, the United States stands at the apex of its power. It possesses the world’s most advanced navy and air force and maintains a global network of military and economic partnerships. While relations with The German Empire remain friendly but pragmatic, both powers heavily cooperate in resisting the encroachments of the Eastern Bloc ⚒️ led by The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and The People's Republic of China. Unlike Germany, which seeks to preserve its overseas empire, the United States espouses a more activist vision: a world order grounded in liberal democracy, open markets, and constitutional governance.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose youth and eloquence have become emblematic of a new American era, leads the nation amidst considerable internal and external challenges. Despite increasing internal tensions, and the 1963 Dallas assassination attempt, he remains a popular and polarising figure, committed to civil rights reform at home and communist containment abroad. American culture, industry, and ideology continue to spread across the globe, and many observers argue that the decline of the European empires has paved the way for the American century to begin in earnest.