Borders of the United States

Canada played a role in the Vietnam conflict as a member of the International Control Commission, they also had a significant contribution of war materials to the United States. The Prime Minister of Canada publicly maintained that he was against the war, but some of his actions suggest that pressure from Washington was affecting his decisions. While some took to the streets in protest, Canada took thousands of draft resistors into the country and thousands of Canadians volunteered to fight with…

development: “Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Border War by Pancho Villa, Zapatista Uprising and much more. All these wars, conflicts, heroic events; let to Mexican people turning ballads songs to corrido’s, also playing with a guitar and accordion” (Wald Elijah). “It’s said that Hispanic music is the oldest nonindigenous music in the United States” (Bruno,104). Even that Mexico and the United States are both separated by a border, the United States still have corrido’s in their culture.…

Agreement (NAFTA). It has been over 20 years now since NAFTA created the world’s largest free trade area in 1993. NAFTA was created to ease restrictions on commerce between the United States, Canada and Mexico by providing duty-free trade on multiple classes of goods, and introducing new regulations to encourage cross-border corporate investment. In this paper I will discuss the history of NAFTA and the impact that it has had on the three countries involved. I will answer the question; has NAFTA…

changed. Prior to 1991 notions of sovereignty harked back to the peace of Westphalia in the mid 16th century. The treaties of Munster and Osnabrück provided the basis of state sovereignty, which at its core meant ‘supreme authority within a territory’ (Philpott, 2001) and ‘non intervention in the internal affairs of other states’ (Krasner, 2004). However the end of the Cold War was a pivotal turning point in history that spurred a number of historical changes…

20 miles west of Idaho and 110 miles south of the Canadian border. Sitting on the banks of the Spokane River and encompassing around 60 square miles, the city is surrounded by a vibrant landscape of the Rocky Mountain foothills, plains, prairies, lakes and forests. With a population of 208,916 and a wider metropolitan area of 535,724 residents, Spokane is the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. After Seattle, Vancouver and Portland, it is also the…

Foreign Aid is aid given from the United States government to other governments for economic, technical, and military assistance. The United States distributes approximately $36,559,531,080 to countries that are administered assistance. We provide foreign assistance to furnish global tranquility, stabilization, and also provide improved human welfare. Over the years foreign assistance has been viewed as positive and a new way for relations to be formed with other countries.It all began in 1948,…

Raveena Malhotra Mr. Haldaman APUSH 6 April 2015 Imperialism By the early ninetieth century America had an escalating reputation as a major world power. The United States had obtained this power through its involvement in imperialism, rapid worldwide expansion, and competition between other larger powers. Some larger powers, which include Germany, Britain, Russia, and France. Although, America was a large colonial power, it was not a sudden growth. Although American expansion during this time…

that the country is being divided in many aspects such as both pro and anti-Assad. The Civil War have not only caused a divide within the country as to the political party, but it have opened up the opportunity for extremist groups such as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)…

The United States claimed that North Vietnamese communists were hiding in Cambodia and ‘endangering American lives’. Official Cambodian statistics state that before May 1969, which six years before the end of the Vietnam War, the United States and allies had a total of 1864 border violations, 5149 air violations, 293 Cambodian deaths, and wounding 690 Cambodians. At the end of the war, the United States bombed over half of the country, and was responsible…

before tensions began to rise between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The United States of America and the Soviet Union initially joined forces to fight against the Germans during World War II. After defeating the Germans, the Allied forces rejoiced that it was finally over. Unfortunately, leaders of the Allied nations were not exactly agreeing upon every topic, especially when it came to the rising competition between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Their…