After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States were the two most powerful countries left in the world. The Cold War was a period of tension between the two countries over ways of life. The two countries tried to get other countries on their side.
In 1846, the United States and Great Britain signed the Oregon Treaty. In this treaty, Oregon Country was split with the U.S. gaining sole possession of the territory south of the 49th parallel, and Great Britain gaining sole possession of the land to the north.10.In 1853, the United States sent diplomat James Gadsden to Mexico to renegotiate the border between the U.S. and Mexico.. From 1818 to 1846, the United States and Great Britain administered the territory in Oregon together. This was a compromise until both countries could agree on how to divide the land between them.
The 1846 Oregon Treaty established the border between British North America and the United States along the 49th parallel until the Strait of Georgia, where the marine boundary curved south to exclude Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands from the United States.he border established by the Oregon Treaty and finalized by the arbitration in 1872 remains the boundary between the United States and Canada in the Pacific Northwest.