Editing History of North America (section)

==Recent history==
{{main|History of the United States (1991–2016)|History of the United States (2016–present)|History of Canada (1982–present)}}
[[File:National Park Service 9-11 Statue of Liberty and WTC fire.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 11 attacks]]]]
The End of the Cold War and the beginning of the era of sustained economic expansion coincided during the 1990s. On January 1, 1994, Canada, Mexico, and the United States signed the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]], creating the world's largest free trade area. Quebec held a referendum in 1995 for national sovereignty in which 51% voted no to 49% yes. In 2000, [[Vicente Fox]] became the first non-[[Partido Revolucionario Institucional|PRI]] candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 70 years.

The optimism of the 1990s was shattered by the [[9/11]] attacks of 2001 on the United States, which [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|prompted the 20-year period of military intervention war]] in Afghanistan, which Canada also participated in. Meanwhile, Canada and Mexico both did not support the United States later moves to [[Iraq War|invade]] [[Iraq]].

From January 2007, drug war in Mexico evolved into an [[Mexican Drug War|actual military conflict]] with each year more deadly than the last.

Starting in early 2008, the [[Great Recession]] in the three North American nations began, which eventually triggered a worldwide recession in the Fall of 2008 and did not recover until 2009. In 2009, [[Barack Obama]] was inaugurated as the first African American to be President of the United States. On December 18, 2011, the [[Iraq War]] was declared formally over once the troops had [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)|pulled out]].

In the 2016 United States presidential election, [[Donald Trump]] was elected 45th President of the United States, defeating [[Hillary Clinton]], and in 2017, he was sworn in as president. Between January 2020 and May 2022, the three North American nations were impacted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic in North America|COVID-19 pandemic]] and [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant|Delta]] [[SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant|cron]] hybrid variant, which claimed the lives of 1.3&nbsp;million people by May 2022.

In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] was elected 46th President of the United States, who defeated [[Donald Trump]] in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], although Trump refused to concede the election, and on January 6, 2021, a group of his supporters [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|stormed the United States Capitol]] in an [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|unsuccessful effort]] to disrupt the [[2021 United States Electoral College vote count|presidential Electoral College vote count]].

Canadian Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] called a [[snap election]] in 2021 to try and increase the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]s seat share and reach a majority government. The results of [[2021 Canadian federal election|2021 federal election]] were mostly unchanged from [[2019 Canadian federal election|2019 federal election]], with the Liberals forming another minority government.