Occupying the northern part of the large supercontinent known as Americas or New World, North America is surrounded by the Arctic Ocean from the north and by the Atlantic Ocean from the east, by the Pacific Ocean from the west and south. It has an overland border with South America continent, which runs along the state boundary between Panama and Colombia.
Totally in North America, there are 23 officially recognized independent states. The largest of them is Canada, followed by also rather big the United States, these two giants together occupy more than 79% of the whole continent area. The smallest country in this part of the world is Saint Kitts and Nevis, it is only two small islands in the Caribbean.
Among the most visited North American countries the number one is the USA, where New York City is considered the most attractive landmark for travelers, further followed by Mexico and Canada. (Source)
Alphabetical list of countries in North America (Click a country to view events related to it):
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Panama
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Chronological History of Events Related to North America
The Secret Meeting That Created United Nations – Dumbarton Oaks Conference
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or more formally the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was a global gathering where ideas for the creation of a “general international organization,” which would later become the United Nations, were developed and negotiated. The United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China served as the conference’s four policemen. It took place in Washington, D.C., at the ...
Bretton Woods Conference: A Step Towards Global Currency and a New World Order
After World War II left the world’s financial system in disarray, political leaders and financial gurus met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, from July 1-22, 1944, to plan the post-war economic order. Economist John Maynard Keynes and the British government proposed the creation of a world currency called the “bancor,” and the U.S. government proposed a world currency to be known as “unitas.” But for a ...
D-Day: American Troops Invade Normandy
Kevin Alfred Strom and Mark Weber discuss D-Day: David Weber: D-Day, of course, was the American-British landing in Normandy, France, on June 6th, 1944. As a purely historical event it was important because it was the largest naval operation in history. But it’s presented in our media as a kind of central turning point of World War II. There’s a natural tendency among everyone and every ...
The Zoot Suit Riots
The formation of the Los Angeles Police Department began in 1877. The primary duties and responsibilities of the department were to protect the elite capitalist or the bourgeoisie (Escobar 1999). This elite group of capitalists had been exploiting Mexican-Americans for their cheap labor and intended to continue running their businesses in this manner despite the terrible consequences for the Mexican community. The Los Angeles Department did ...
NY Herald-Tribune Exposes “Hitler’s Angels”: The US (Bush-Harriman-Thyssen) Funding of Hitler – Later Quietly Revealed in 2003 FOIA Docs
After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, 2003 FOIA-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress revealed that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of former President George W. Bush and father of President George HW Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, ...
The 4-Day Battle of Midway Begins: An American Victory that Changed the Course of the Pacific War During WWII
Just six months after the catastrophic Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. crushed the Imperial Japanese Navy off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu and roughly halfway between North America and Asia), sinking four of its aircraft carriers. An overwhelming armada of Japanese ships made their way across the Pacific to attack this tiny Atoll with the purpose of using the small island ...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Sent a Radio Message (Intercepted by Station H in Hawaii) to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo about Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
On November 24th, 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sent a radio message to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, Commander of the Pacific Striking Fleet, which read in part, "The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and ...
Map for a New World Order on 1941 Communist World Planning – The North American Union
In October of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, Philadelphia clock-maker Maurice Gomberg completed a communist world map of future regional unions, including a continental North American Union. The name Canada is not on that map. However, the former provinces are depicted as states, re-federated into a vast "United States of America" stretching to Greenland. Maurice Gomberg sympathized with the Communist Party of America (CPA). Interestingly, Canada's recent ...
Operation Barbarossa: Why Hitler Attacked Soviet Russia When He Did
Until his death in July 1996, Adolf von Thadden was a prominent and respected figure in German "right wing" or "nationalist" (conservative) circles. note 1 In this, his final book, this prolific writer concisely and cogently explains why Hitler was compelled, for both political and military reasons, to launch his preemptive strike against the Soviet Union when and how he did. "Stalin's Trap" is also his final ...
The McCollum Memo is Written: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt's most trusted military advisors. The memo, scanned below, detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over ...
