Basic Information
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Cities
Other Locations
List of US States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Territories of the United States
Fictional Locations
Organizations
- Amway
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Human Terrain Team
- Ku Klux Klan
- National Security Agency
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- United States Department of Homeland Security
The US at War
Here's a very abbreviated list of the big ones you've probably heard about. The full list can be found at List of Wars involving the United States.
- American Revolution 1775 - 1783
- War of 1812 1812 - 1815
- Mexican-American War 1846 - 1848
- American Civil War 1861 - 1865
- Great Sioux War of 1876 1876 - 1877
- Spanish-American War 1898
- World War I 1914 - 1918
- World War II 1939 - 1945
- Korean War 1950 - 1953
- Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961
- Vietnam War 1955 - 1975, with US involvement scaling up after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964
- Invasion of Panama 1989 - 1990
- Gulf War 1990 - 1991
- Iraq War 2003 - 2011
In addition to the big ones, there's a truly surprising number of lesser-known wars that involved the US military. There are more than 100 additional wars on the List of Wars involving the United States.
And here's all the conflicts the US is currently involved in, as of September 2019:
- War in Afghanistan 2001 - present
- War in North-West Pakistan 2004 - present
- Second U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War 2007 - present
- American-led Intervention in Iraq 2014 - present
- American-led Intervention in Syria 2014 - present
- Yemeni Civil War 2015 - present
- American Intervention in Libya 2015 - present
Famous Americans
- P. T. Barnum
- Bloody Benders
- Nellie Bly
- John Brown
- Julia Bulette
- Jimmy Carter
- Douglas Corrigan
- Judge Joseph Force Crater
- Charles Fort
- Peter Francisco
- Gary Gygax
- Mose "the Fireboy" Humphrey
- Ranald MacDonald
- Halbert E. Paine
- Pierre Parrant
- John Whiteside Parsons
- Allan Pinkerton
- Harriet Quimby
- Cleon Skousen
- James Wilkinson
If you create an arcanawiki page on a famous American, please add a link here, and a link on the People page. Thank you!
See Also
- News: Block the Vote
- News: Insurance firms ‘very much’ behind town hall disruptions
- News: Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?
- News: Looters are pillaging Native American burial grounds
- Event/News: Russia and US collaborate in Afghanistan drug raid
- News: The Scholarship of Collapse
- News: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
Sources
Game and Story Use
- Any game that takes place in a modern-day setting will likely have some connections to the USA in some way.
- The book "The Nine Nations of North America"[2] can serve as a model for an Alternate History setting where the USA split up in smaller nations.