POL SCI 142D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Civil War, World War I
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(cid:885)(cid:886)(cid:887) million people, (cid:886)% of the world"s population. Its landmass only (cid:887)% of the world"s population. Between the population and the landmass, the us has second largest economy in the world. The idea of the maps is to see, for me, to allow you to write a story about how the us grew from the original 13 colonies to today. Us was surrounded by the powers of today, including france, spain, britain, russia. Later on, us was largely protected by mexico and canada, and two oceans that separated the us from europe, atlantic, asia, etc. Why did wwi change the character of the us west of the. Just like today, treaties with mexico, asia, europe, deny americans of jobs. Nothing is new in terms of am foreign policy. When countries stop trading, in order to save themselves and employments, it may lead to war and conflict. Look at the way in which these issues are treated, possible solutions and consequences.