From Alternative History

United States of America

Official language	English
Capital	Washington D.C.
Head of state	George W. Bush
Head of government	George W. Bush
Area	9,631,419 km^2
Population	293,345,756
Independence	1776
Currency	U.S. Dollar

The United States of America have been the World's biggest economic power since 1945 and have also surpassed the USSR as the dominating military power at the turn of the 21st century. After recovering from the economic recession of 1991-1998 following the Third Oil Crisis, the American economy has again risen to mastership in most economic sectors, only challenged in a few high-tech sectors by Japan and the automobile+chemical industries by West Germany. With the USSR having to divert more and more resources to quelling internal unrest in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, the USA have now not only the most modern military in the world, but have also for 5 years now together with NATO allies enjoyed a strategic advantage in terms of conventional military forces against the Warsaw Pact in both Europe and East Asia. New President George W. Bush plans to improve and enlarge the military even further have joyed one part of the world, but frightened another one that Bush will actively topple Communist regimes, which could lead to all-out war with the Soviets.

List of United States Presidents

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Vice President(s)
1	George Washington	1789	1797	No party	John Adams
2	John Adams	1797	1801	Federalist	Thomas Jefferson
3	Thomas Jefferson	1801	1809	Democratic-Republican	Aaron Burr and George Clinton1
4	James Madison	1809	1817	Democratic-Republican	Elbridge Gerry1
5	James Monroe	1817	1825	Democratic-Republican	Daniel D. Tompkins
6	John Quincy Adams	1825	1829	Democratic-Republican	John C. Calhoun
7	Andrew Jackson	1829	1837	Democrat	John C. Calhoun2 and Martin Van Buren
8	Martin Van Buren	1837	1841	Democrat	Richard Mentor Johnson
9	William Henry Harrison3	1841	1841	Whig	John Tyler
10	John Tyler	1841	1845	Whig4	none
11	James Knox Polk	1845	1849	Democrat	George M. Dallas
12	Zachary Taylor3	18498	1850	Whig	Millard Fillmore
13	Millard Fillmore	1850	1853	Whig	none
14	Franklin Pierce	1853	1857	Democrat	William R. King5
15	James Buchanan	1857	1861	Democrat	John C. Breckinridge
16	Abraham Lincoln6	1861	1865	Republican	Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson
17	Andrew Johnson	1865	1869	Democrat7	none
18	Ulysses Simpson Grant	1869	1877	Republican	Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson5
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	1877	1881	Republican	William A. Wheeler
20	James Abram Garfield6	1881	1881	Republican	Chester A. Arthur
21	Chester Alan Arthur	1881	1885	Republican	none
22	Stephen Grover Cleveland	1885	1889	Democrat	Thomas A. Hendricks5
23	Benjamin Harrison	1889	1893	Republican	Levi P. Morton
24	Stephen Grover Cleveland	1893	1897	Democrat	Adlai E. Stevenson
25	William McKinley6	1897	1901	Republican	Garret A. Hobart5 then Theodore Roosevelt
26	Theodore Roosevelt	1901	1909	Republican	None then Charles W. Fairbanks
27	William Howard Taft	1909	1913	Republican	James S. Sherman5
28	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	1913	1921	Democrat	Thomas R. Marshall
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding3	1921	1923	Republican	Calvin Coolidge
30	John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.	1923	1929	Republican	None then Charles G. Dawes
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	1929	1933	Republican	Charles Curtis
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt3	1933	1945	Democrat	John Nance Garner and Henry A. Wallace and Harry S. Truman
33	Harry Truman	1945	1953	Democrat	None then Alben W. Barkley
34	Dwight Eisenhower	1953	1961	Republican	Richard M. Nixon
35	John F. Kennedy6	1961	1963	Democrat	Lyndon B. Johnson
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963	1969	Democrat	None then Hubert Humphrey
37	Richard Nixon	1969	1974	Republican	Spiro Agnew2 then None then Gerald Ford
38	Gerald Ford	1974	1977	Republican	None then Nelson Rockefeller
39	James Carter	1977	1981	Democrat	Walter Mondale
40	Ronald Reagan	1981	1989	Republican	George H.W. Bush
41	Donald Rumsfeld	1989	1997	Democrat	Dick Cheney
42	Al Gore	1997	2000	Democrat	Mario Cuomo
43	George W. Bush	2001	Incumbent	Republican	Ron Paul

¹ Died while Vice President.
² Resigned as Vice President.
³ Died of natural causes.
⁴ Democrat on Whig ticket.
⁵ Died while Vice President, not replaced.
⁶ Assassinated.
⁷ Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.
⁸ Sworn in later than expected.