Law enforcement
- police, courts, and corrections.
- Patrol officer pursuit
- Sheriff, Detective, Marshal
American Revolution (1765-1784)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Vietnam War
- John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
- Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs.
Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was first conceived in 1960 during President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow the one-person Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy’s national goal for the 1960s of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth” in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961.
North Atlantic Treaty
The North Atlantic Treaty, also referred to as the Washington Treaty, is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949.
Founding members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Joined before the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain
Joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia
Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)
Annual ridership: 32 million
In God We Trust
这一格言首次出现在美国于1864年发行的两美分硬币上。1956年，在面对共产主义的苏联无神论政权下，一项国会法案获得通过，“我们信仰上帝”正式成为了美国的官方格言。
Political parties
Libertarian Party (自由意志党)
2020年由于众议员贾斯汀·阿马什的加入，使自由意志党在2020年大选前于国会众议院中短暂拥有一席，贾斯汀·阿马什是自由意志党首名国会议员。
United States federal executive departments
Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Public Health Service
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Indian Health Service (IHS)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
- Human Services agencies
- Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
- Administration for Community Living (ACL)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Defense
Veterans Affairs
Agriculture
Transportation
Homeland Security
Education
State
Housing and Urban Development
Labor
Energy
Justice
美国没有统一的中央警察机构，美国联邦执法机构主要分属联邦政府的司法部及国土安全部。
Interior
Treasury
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law. It is an agency of the Department of the Treasury and led by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States. The duties of the IRS include providing tax assistance to taxpayers; pursuing and resolving instances of erroneous or fraudulent tax filings; and overseeing various benefits programs, including the Affordable Care Act.
Commerce
Law
False Claims Act
The False Claims Act (FCA), also called the “Lincoln Law”, is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs. It is the federal government’s primary litigation tool in combating fraud against the government.
Affordable Care Act
Politics
United States Congress
The United States Senate (100 seats) is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives (435 seats) being the lower chamber.
A United States congressional hearing is the principal formal method by which United States congressional committees collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking.
Cabinet
- Vice President
- Secretary of State
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Secretary of Defense
- Attorney General
- Secretary of the Interior
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Secretary of Commerce
- Secretary of Labor
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary of Transportation
- Secretary of Energy
- Secretary of Education
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Secretary of Homeland Security
Lobbying
Economy
https://www.clevelandfed.org/indicators-and-data/median-cpi
Demographics
European Americans & Non-Hispanic whites
Hispanic: This ethnic group includes any person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Spanish: Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Portuguese: Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of Spanish and/or Latin American ancestry. More broadly, these demographics include all Americans who identify as Hispanic or Latino regardless of ancestry. As of 2020, the Census Bureau estimated that there were almost 65.3 million Hispanics and Latinos living in the United States and its territories (which include Puerto Rico).
Chinese Americans
The 2016 Community Survey of the US Census estimates a population of Chinese Americans of one or more races to be 5,081,682.
Indian Americans
- Indian Americans make up 1.4% of the U.S. population
- Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States and was the first person of Indian descent elected to the United States Senate
- Sundar Pichai appointed as the chairman and CEO of Google.
Education
Education in the United States is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational standards, often mandate standardized tests for K–12 public school systems and supervise, usually through a board of regents, state colleges, and universities.
Compulsory education is divided into three levels: elementary school, middle or junior high school, and high school.
School
Elementary school
Christian school
The largest system of Christian education in the United States is operated by the Catholic Church. As of 2011, there were 6,841 elementary and secondary schools enrolling about 2.2 million students. Most are administered by individual dioceses and parishes.
Ivy League
Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Brown University
California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers.
The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest public university system in the United States.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the United States, and third largest system of higher education in the world, serving more than 1.8 million students.
Culture
Silent Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Baby boomers
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks.
Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around the world.
Movies
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)