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The '''United States of America''', commonly the '''US''', '''USA''', '''America''', or just '''The States''' was a nation-state located in [[North America]] on the [[planet]] [[Earth]]. Its head of state and head of government was an elected [[President of the United States|President]], chosen by general election every four years.

== History ==
=== Early history ===
==== American Revolution and nationhood ====
Prior to [[British]] settlement, the United States was primarily inhabited by [[Native American]]s.

The [[Ninth Doctor]] claimed to have participated in the [[Boston Tea Party]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'')

In [[1775]], the [[American War of Independence|American Revolutionary War]] against colonial rule by Britain began. [[The Rani]] was present at some point during this conflict, and extracted brain chemicals from soldiers, using the violence to conceal her presence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')

=== [[19th century]] ===
==== American Civil War ====
The [[American Civil War]] (1861-1865) was a conflict between the [[Confederate States of America]] (comprising most of the [[state]]s of the southeastern United States) and the United States of America (the states that remained loyal to the federal government in Washington). Soldiers from this conflict were kidnapped by the [[War Lord]]s for use in their [[War Game|war games]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'')

While testing the temporal interocitor, [[Nyssa]] accidentally ended up in the Civil War during a battle in [[Virginia]].{{Fact}}

A black Confederate soldier named Floyd was one of several people throughout history who'd been hearing the voices of Daleks all his life, as part of their plan to make humanity more susceptible to Dalek ideals and enslave them. He assisted in thwarting this plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks]]'')

[[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]] were separated from the [[Fifth Doctor]] after materialising in the Civil War. They witnessed its brutality first-hand. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope]]'')

On [[14 April]] [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] was assassinated in [[Ford's Theatre]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]'')

==== Settling the West ====
The latter half of the 19th century, particularly the years following the Civil War, saw rapid colonisation and development of the western half of the United States. Violence became a way of life in many settlements where often a lone marshall was hired to keep law and order. The [[First Doctor]] and his companions once found themselves engaged in a particularly infamous and bloody incident known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'').

=== [[20th century]] ===

==== [[1930s]] ====
In [[1930]], the [[tenth Doctor|Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] went to [[New York City]] where they found the [[Cult of Skaro]]. Many New York citizens were killed by the Cult after it tried to make them into a new form of [[human-Dalek|Dalek-human]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]/[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')

: ''For more information, see [[Final Experiment]].''

In [[1938]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] countered an invasion of New York by the Reggins during [[Orson Welles]]' broadcast of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars]]'')

==== [[1940s]] ====
In [[1941]] the United States entered [[World War II]] after an attack on the US Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. {{Fact}}

In [[1947]], a space ship crash landed at [[Roswell]], [[New Mexico]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]] '')

==== [[1950s]] ====
In [[1958]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] met [[Cassie Rice]] and [[Jimmy Stalkingwolf]]. They were arrested and taken to Area 51 to have their minds wiped. There they discovered the truth about the Roswell crash and Area 51. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')

In [[1959]], the Americans sent their first [[satellite]] up into orbit. Unknown to the public, it actually ended up in [[Wales]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'')

==== [[1960s]] ====
In the early [[1960s]], the United States confronted the [[Russia|Soviet Union]] and [[Cuba]] in the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. Fear of [[nuclear war]] during the crisis kept [[Barbara Wright]] awake at night. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963 (audio story)|1963]]'')

On [[22 November]] [[1963]], [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] allegedly [[Kennedy assassination|assassinated]] President [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') The [[Ninth Doctor]] was present for this event. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')

The first acknowledged American [[the Moon|Moon]] landing happened on [[20 July]] [[1969]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')

In [[1969]], a [[River Song|little girl]] phoned President [[Richard Nixon]], told him about a spaceman that was coming to eat her, and warned him about [[the Silence|monsters]] in the [[White House|oval office]]. President Nixon recruited [[Canton Delaware]] to find out who the girl was, and he was assisted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], and [[River Song]]. During these events, the Silence were defeated by the Doctor through the use of their own post hypnotic suggestion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]''/''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')

In [[1970]], young River Song ended up in [[New York City]], dying from a disease, and on the run from the Silence since her escape from them in [[Florida]]. She regenerated to cure herself and continue living, scaring away a [[Tramp (Day of the Moon)|homeless man]] that was concerned about her health. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') This new incarnation of River Song ended up a toddler. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

==== [[1990s]] ====
The [[Tenth Doctor]] alleged that by [[1994]], the US military would admit that [[Area 51]] existed, having previously denied it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')

Between [[30 December]] [[1999]] and just after midnight on [[1 January]] [[2000]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] was in [[San Francisco]], where he regenerated into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], and subseqeuntly prevented {{Roberts}} from causing havoc with time and space on New Year's Eve. ([[TV]]: [[Doctor Who (1996)|''Doctor Who'']])

=== [[21st century]] ===
==== [[2000s]] ====
In [[2008]], {{Simm|n=Harold Saxon}}, the new [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], announced [[first contact]] with the [[Toclafane]], who he described as a friendly form of alien life. The United States sent President [[Arthur Coleman Winters]] to come to the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' and take charge, whereupon the Toclafane killed him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')

In [[2009]], [[Dalek]]s under the control of [[Davros]] attacked New York. They destroyed the UNIT base there and killed most of the staff, including [[Sanchez|General Sanchez]] and [[Suzanne (The Stolen Earth)|Suzanne]], although [[Martha Jones]] escaped thanks to [[Project Indigo]]. These Daleks were destroyed after the destruction of the [[Crucible]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End]]'')

==== [[2010s]] ====

In [[2011]], [[Carter (Let's Kill Hitler)|Carter]] sent letters written by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to [[River Song]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], [[Canton Delaware]], and the Doctor's younger self, asking them (bar the Doctor himself) to meet the Doctor in [[Lake Silencio]] in [[Utah]]. When they arrived the Doctor told Amy, River and Rory that they would have to go to "space, 1969." After Canton arrived, the Doctor, actually a [[Teselecta]] decoy, was shot by a younger version of River. Canton informed the others that the Doctor was really dead, and they cremated his supposed body. After Amy, Rory, and River found the Doctor's younger self, they travelled back in time to [[8 April]] [[1969]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')

In [[2015]], relations between the United States and [[Cuba]] remained tense. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eight Truths (audio story)|The Eight Truths]]'')

==== [[2030s]] ====

Circa [[2037]] the [[Wars of Independence]] broke up the United States. Terrorists destroyed the city of [[Phoenix (city)|Phoenix]], [[Arizona]] using a [[Tesla bomb]]. It was turned into a massive crater which came to be known as the "Phoenix Sandbowl". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'')
==== Late 21st century ====

Due to the [[Myloki]] conflict of 2066-8, by [[2096]] America was split into the warring North American Legion and Deep Southern States, with the Texas Republic selling weapons to both sides. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Indestructible Man]]'')

=== [[22nd century]] and [[Fall of America|Fall]] ===
By [[2118]], America and Europe had been using [[Africa]] to grow new foodstuffs for their populations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Art of Destruction]]'')

In [[2146]] America's economy collapsed causing food riots. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'')

=== [[26th century]] ===
Probably well before the mid 26th century, much of what was once the southern [[United States]] had sunk under the "Mississippi Sea". ([[BFBS]]: ''[[Home]]'')

== Legacy ==
By the [[51st century|52nd century]], America seemed to be unheard of by some humans. When [[River Song]] escaped from the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]], she announced she was heading to America, which a [[Prison Guard (The Impossible Astronaut)|Prison Guard]] mistook as a planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')

: ''The date of River's escape was unknown in The Impossible Astronaut, but as the date of her escape in ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' was [[5145]], it seems likely her second escape was also in the 52nd century.''

By [[200100]], the USA was part of the [[New American Alliance]]. When the [[Dalek]]s attacked, most of the population was killed and the terrain was drastically altered. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')


The American city of New York would become one of the most important cities in human history. Versions of New York city would continue to exist for billions of years. ([[TV]] : ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')

== People and culture ==
U.S. popular culture had a significant influence on the rest of the Earth during the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st centuries]], especially in the Western world. U.S. music was heard all over the world, and included such forms as [[blues]], [[jazz]] and [[rock and roll]]. As late as the final destruction of [[Earth]] during the expansion of its [[Sol|Sun]], much of this music was still considered among the greatest ever composed by [[human]]ity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', {{facts}})

American DJs were well liked by the [[DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)|DJ]] of [[Tranquil Repose]], who based his style of presentation on them. [[Peri Brown]] thought of "Tranquil Repose" as the sort of name for a place in America; the [[Sixth Doctor]] agreed but thought America did not have a monopoly on bad taste. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'')

=== Economy ===
By the 20th century, the United States had a decimal currency. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'')

=== Companions and Time Lords ===
* The Doctor had the company of American companions from time to time, most notably [[Peri Brown]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' to [[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]'') and Dr. [[Grace Holloway]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'') He also had two companions from [[New Mexico]] in [[1958]], [[Cassie Rice]] and [[Jimmy Stalkingwolf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')
* [[The Master]] once briefly appropriated the body of an [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|American paramedic]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'') and later became Barak Obama, American president (along with every other person on earth). ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') 
* Though he was from the [[Boeshane Peninsula]] in the [[51st century]], Captain [[Jack Harkness]] had an American accent, as did his father and brother. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]'')

== Largest cities ==
[[New York City]] was destroyed during the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]''), while [[Los Angeles]] was still a major global centre in the early years of the [[Earth Empire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')

== Alternative timelines ==
* In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] in which [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] won [[World War II]] as a result of the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] accidentally leaving laser technology in [[Colditz Castle]] in [[October]] [[1944]], the Nazi scientists were able to refine [[uranium]] and create [[nuclear weapon]]s. They subsequently bombed [[New York City]], forcing the surrender of the United States and winning the war for Germany. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein's Story]]'')
* In an alternative timeline created by the [[Great Old One|Elder Gods]] in the hope of destroying [[Earth]], [[World War III]] broke out on [[9 November]] [[1989]] between the United States and its allies, including the [[United Kingdom]], on the one hand and the [[Russia|Soviet Union]] on the other hand. Given that nuclear weapons were used by both sides, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the conflict. This timeline was ultimately negated by the Seventh Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
* Despite the franchise's popularity in the US, since 1963 only a handful of TV episodes have featured scenes set within the US, and to date there have only been seven TV stories set in their entirety in that country: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'' (the only story of the classic 1963-89 series set entirely in the US), the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 TV movie]], ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', the two-parter ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]/[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', the 2009 animated serial ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'', the [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] two-parter opener, ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]''/''[[Day of the Moon]]'', and the [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] episodes ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]'' and ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]].
* In the mid-1980s, plans were made to film part of ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' in the US, possibly in the vicinity of New Orleans. This plan was cancelled and the serial was filmed in Spain, instead. For most of ''Doctor Who'''s history, no story had undertaken major filming within the United States (the 1996 telefilm, though set in [[San Francisco]], was filmed in [[Vancouver]], [[Canada]]); some second-unit filming occurred for [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', but nothing involving the main cast. No major filming in America occurred until autumn 2010, when key scenes for [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', and ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'' were filmed in [[Utah]].

== See also ==
* [[President of the United States]]
* [[:Category:Stories set in the United States|Stories set in the United States]]

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