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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's crazy it misses out all of the important bits. In the 1830s the United States was on the international stage a relative backwater by the first world war it was a major superpower. Some interesting stuff happened in the middle of those two time periods to make that switch.

[โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but those periods didn't involve them much, they felt sidelined and resentful so they don't matter.