Former colonies of the USA

Africa

•  Liberia (1821–47) – Liberia was never officially claimed by the United States. Rather it was founded by the American Colonization Society, a private American civilian organization.

Asia

•  Philippines (1898–1946)
•  Japan
  • Nanpo Islands (1945–68)
  • Marcus Island (1945–68)
  •  Okinawa (1950–72)
    • Amami Islands (1950–53)

North America

•  Puerto Rico (1898–present)
•  Cuba (1899–1902)
•  Honduras
  • Swan Islands (1863–1972)
•  Panama (1989–90)
  •  Panama Canal Zone (1903–79)
•  Mexico
  • Río Rico, Tamaulipas (1906–77)
  •  Veracruz (1914)
•  Nicaragua (1912-1933)^[1]
  • Corn Islands (1914–71)
•  United States Virgin Islands (1916–present)
•  Dominican Republic (1916–24, 1965–66)
•  Haiti (1915–34)

Oceania

•  American Samoa (1899–present)
•  France
  •  French Polynesia
    • Nuku Hiva (1813–32) – The U.S. Navy claimed it as part of the United States, but U.S. Congress never ratified claims.
•  Guam (1898–present)
•  Kiribati
  • Canton and Enderbury Islands (1938–79)
  • Line Islands (?-1979)
  • Nikumaroro (1856–1979)
  • Phoenix Islands (?–1979)
•  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1947–94)
  •  Marshall Islands (1944–86) (1986–present as an associated state)
  •  Palau (1947–94) (1994–present as an associated state)
  •  Federated States of Micronesia (1947–86) (1986–present as an associated state)
  •  Northern Mariana Islands (1975–present)
•  Cook Islands ( New Zealand)
  • Pukapuka (1942–80)
  • Rakahanga (?–1980)

South America

•  Colombia
  • Quita Sueño Bank (1869–1981)
  • Roncador Bank (1856–1981)
  • Serrana Bank (?–1981)
•  France
  •  French Guiana
    • Îles du Connétable (1856–1915)
•  United Kingdom
  • Falkland Islands (1831–32)

(Source: Wikipedia)

 

(Comment:  Even the USA, which posits itself as representing freedom, was slow in releasing control over some of its territories. Since then it has become one of the neo-colonisers of the West. Having acquired a new kind of empire – the hegemonic empire, one based on influence rather than on control – it offers protection to nations such as Australia.

Whether it ends up as one of the many brief empires of history depends essentially upon the movements of our planets. How  predictable are such movements, and their potential impacts?  Could they depend  on God’s Will?  

Could hegemonic empires be replaced by co-prosperity spheres of the kind Japan had in mind?)

 

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