America

Personification of America (Countryhuman) Character= America Full name= USA (United States of America) Gender= Male Height= Tall (Not Specified) Birth Date= 4th July 1776 Appearance= no nose, hair, ears (Personifications don't have that yet live normally) + white skin (Not human colored, actually white) + America flag as face + broad shoulders + muscled physique Clothes and Accessories= Green bomber jacket with faux fur lining + black skin-tight latex long shirt + jeans + badges and pins stitched on + sometimes wears a suit or American military uniform with hat + always wears black sunglasses Personality= confident + brave + loud + impulsive + friendly (mostly with his family and friends) + though + strong + exhausted, tired sometimes from immense paperwork + proud + sometimes insensitive + show off + a bit chaotic Likes/Interests= Sports (Basketball, American football, etc.) + Fast food + Hanging out with other countries + Fashion + Playing video games+ Asian pop culture + Guns + NATO & United Nations + Capitalism + Technology + Social Networks + Oil Dislikes= making mistakes + dark parts of his past + enemies (USSR, Third Reich, Mexico (government), North Korea, ect.) Race= American (North America) Capital= Washington D.C. Details= The USA just wanted freedom, that's all they ever wanted, they had a strong sense of justice and even if it was a bit wonky, it was a different era, they had always wanted to show everyone that they were a star a beacon of hope and freedom, and having a strong moral drive, they beat the worlds best military at the time with a group of poorly trained, volunteer citizens, and even with their spats they love their family, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ect, they love them to death. He's a total show off sometimes and spends lots of time in social media, eating fast food, and flexing... yet he was the most popular.

History= Colonial Period In the late 15th century, Spain began exploring and colonizing areas in the Americas, starting with Florida in 1565. This marked the beginning of European colonization of the North American continent. Over the next century, other European powers like England and France began exploring and establishing settlements as well. One of the earliest successful English colonies was Jamestown, founded in 1607 in what is now Virginia. An even more enduring settlement was the Plymouth Colony established in 1620 in present-day Massachusetts. These settlements represented the start of large-scale colonization efforts by Britain in North America. By the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain had established 13 colonies along the eastern coast of North America, spanning from Massachusetts in the north to Georgia in the south. This collection of colonies became known as British North America and eventually formed the foundation for what we now call the United States. The American Revolution In the 1760s and 1770s, tensions escalated between the American colonists and the British government. The colonists objected to "taxation without representation" through laws like the Stamp Act of 1765. Protests grew more forceful, such as the Boston Massacre of 1770 and Boston Tea Party in 1773. In response, the British enacted punitive measures against Massachusetts and closed Boston harbor. This galvanized resistance in the other colonies. In 1774, the First Continental Congress coordinated colonial opposition to British policies. However, loyalties remained divided between Patriot and Loyalist factions. Fighting broke out in 1775 when the British tried to capture colonial military supplies. This launched the Revolutionary War between the colonial forces and Britain. Each colony established revolutionary governments and recruited soldiers led by General George Washington. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared independence and the formation of united, sovereign states. Washington's troops were able to force the British out of Boston but lost New York City that summer. The tide turned with victories at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781, bringing France into the war in support of the colonists. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 ended the war and established the United States as a sovereign, independent nation with territory east of the Mississippi. This established a new constitutional democratic republic and led many Loyalists to relocate to Canada. The outcome fundamentally reshaped the political and geographic landscape of North America. The American Civil War In 1861, tensions that had been building between northern and southern states over the issues of states' rights and slavery erupted into armed conflict. Seven southern slaveholding states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. They took control of eleven states in total. The Union and the newly formed Confederacy took steps to raise armies from volunteers and conscripts to fight for their respective causes. For four bloody years, the two sides engaged in intense combat primarily across the South. The human costs were immense, with over 600,000 casualties by the end - more than all other American wars combined. The war reached its conclusion in 1865. After major military defeats, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, marking a turning point. Other Confederate surrenders followed. The collapse of the Confederacy restored national unity, though reconciliation would be a long process. Significantly, the war resulted in the abolishment of slavery across the country and the liberation of over 4 million enslaved people. It also expanded federal power and laid the groundwork for establishing civil and political rights for African Americans through Reconstruction era amendments to the Constitution. The devastation left a transformed Southern landscape and a reconstituted national identity. World War I When the war began in 1914, the United States chose to remain neutral given Europe's "Old World" conflicts did not directly concern America. Public opinion was divided along immigrant ties to the warring nations. Germany's sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania in 1915, killing over 100 Americans, began shifting US views against Germany. This atrocity was seared into the national consciousness with recruitment posters reading "Remember Lusitania!" In 1917, the Zimmerman Telegram revealed a secret German plot to ally with Mexico against America if the US entered the war. This blatant provocation, along with Germany's resumed unrestricted submarine warfare threatening more American lives, led President Wilson to call for war in April. Under General Pershing, the American Expeditionary Forces deployed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to France by year's end. Their fresh forces arriving in the war's third year helped boost Allied morale in turning the tide against exhausted German armies. In sum, grave German offenses and threats of an anti-American alliance ultimately overrode US neutrality, leading America into the war and a platform from which Wilson hoped to shape the peace and prevent future global conflicts. The results and consequences remained to be seen. World War II In 1941, the United States initially remained neutral in World War II as the conflict raged in Europe and Asia. However, on December 7th that year, the Empire of Japan launched a devastating surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In response, the US declared war on Japan the next day. A few days later, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the US as well, pulling America fully into the global conflict. In June 1944, the US played a major role in Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day. This vast amphibious invasion of German-occupied Western Europe was the largest seaborne operation in history and helped tip the tide against Germany. From December 1944 to January 1945, American forces also found themselves embroiled in the bloody Battle of the Bulge, resisting a massive surprise German counter-offensive in Belgium. Finally, in August 1945, the US dropped two atomic bombs codenamed "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With their monstrous destruction and loss of life, this new type of weapon helped compel Imperial Japan to surrender, effectively ending the war. In summary, Pearl Harbor drew the US into World War II, after which American military power was instrumental in the titanic struggles to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan on the Western and Pacific fronts. Technological advances like the atomic bomb also shaped the war's conclusion.