Bertu? Kolata
Mrs. French
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How did the U.S become a global superpower?
In todays world U.S is the one of the superpowers. But how could a 250-year-old country become so strong while having very old countries in the world? This has many reasons of course but first let’s look at what does superpower mean. According to Dictionary.com it is ‘an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations’. The definition is right and we had two superpowers like that in the twentieth century. They were the former Soviet Union and U.S.
While we are looking through the United States history we see that they were suffered from very depressing situations like Civil War. But they managed to get out of the situations. One of the biggest effects Civil War was one of the main events in the United States history and it had huge effects on America’s future. For example, banning slavery and giving voting rights for all male citizens regardless of their race were two of the impacts on America. They were the key actions for going to a democracy and the democracy led United States to be a superpower
Also wars are important causes of the way becoming global superpower. In the 1914
When the World War I began America tried to stay out of the war and isolated. They wanted
to stay out of the war because they wanted to trade with both countries. U.S stayed out of the
war until 1917 and when trade became impossible they declared war on Germany. After that
U.S went in a progressive era.
In 1920s America has entered an era named ‘Roaring Twenties’. At that time
Consumerism concept came up and government encouraged American people to buy and
consume more. Those behaviors led to the Great Depression. Nearly half of the American
banks crashed and 15 million people become unemployed and it took like a decade to recover
from that situation. When the World War 2 began U.S has still been recovering from Great Deppression and joining the war had included too much risk. So United States adopted neut
http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/consumerism-america-1920s.htm
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-06-2011/civil-war-changed–life.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/america-and-world-war-one/
