The History of the United States - Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

The United States is a country founded on the principals of freedom, its founding fathers ensured that the fledgling democracy would be protected from tryanical monarchs by instituting a series of checks and balances into the very fabric of the nation. Things like presidential term limits, political parties, the direct election of senators were put in place to protect us.

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After the founding of the United States, the country quickly began to expand thoughout the unpopulated countryside. Pioneers found their way across a vast land mass full of natural resources waiting to be exploited, until they came upon the pacific ocean. Entrepid entrepreneurs quickly took to building railroads across the continent as more and more territories were added into the federal government as states of being.

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The growing and noble power had just one internal problem, the problem of slavery. It was such a big issue, so against the spirit of freedom from hardship and suffering that the founding fathers had proposed, that a war was fought about the very existence of such an institution. The decided outcome was that everbody was equal under the eyes of the law, and that all slaves were now to be free citizens of the United States. Again the United States showed itself to be a leader in freedom and prosperity for all.

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The powerful and large nation continued to advance and grow, continuing to be a leader in industry and ingenuity. It always avoided conflict whenever it could, and dedicated itself to the transformation of the fortuitously abundant natural resources of its interior. But as it grew, it began to become clear that freedom was meant for all humans, and that it was unjust to live ignorantly of people living without freedoms in other parts of the world.

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Just as the founding fathers came from Europe to instill freedom on the North American continent, now the young American nation had an opportunity, nay a responsibility, to help its European parents achieve their freedom as well. The United States returned to Europe in the Great War under the benign leadership of Woodrow Wilson, a man who stood for equality.

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For as good as its motives were, the US did win the Great War, but naively lost the post war negotiations. Freedom was not quite as sticky in the Old World as it was in the new, and soon the population of Europe were up in arms again. A few dictators had banded together, and once again the world called out to the United States to win the Second World War, and so it did.

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The US, from the D-Day invasion to the sacking of Berlin, fought its way across a continent ravaged by dictators, each more insidious than the last. The very freedoms that the country was founded upon were put to the test, as new madmen rose to power all around the world. The war stopped in Berlin, a line was drawn, but the careful observers could tell, freedom had a long march to go before it was available to every world citizen.

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During the second great war, scientists had stumbled upon a mighty invention, the very spirit of American ingenuity gave birth to a cursed gift of the atomic weapon. Used only once on two cities in Japan to liberate the Mainland Asians and indeed the very Japanese people from years of servitude under the brutal Hirohito empire, the circumspect US decided that these weapons were too dangerous and after using them for freedom immediately began working to avoid the proliferation of such a weapon across the world.

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Even so, a few short years later, another horrible oppressor discovered the technology to explode atomic weapons, and the US was forced to stand up once again to hold the line of freedom against encroaching forces. Time and time again, the US saved populations such as the South Koreans from Communist invasion, the Cubans from the tyrant Batista, the Hmong peoples from the treacherous revolutionary forces in Vietnam.

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The ever advancing wave of freedom has continued across the globe, and today the US has all but finished up the rough edges and rouge elements that still resist freedom. It has circled the globe and come back around to center; only in the remote corners of Africa and the Deserts of the Middle East do lone splinter cells still resist the clarion call of liberty and justice for all.

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Almost.