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1941, Japan attacked U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The surprise attack changed the United States public opinion from isolationism to support direct participation on war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created agencies like the War Production Board, the War Manpower Commission and the Office of Price to control mobilization and regulate the economy. Mobilizing for war permitted United States to reach production record. By 1944, was produced one ship every day and a plane every 5 minutes

Partially, it involves the simultaneous use of the national currency and a currency in the currency practices of different countries. Thus, dollarization is not only the exclusive use of the dollar. Similarly it does not indicate the degree of penetration of foreign currency in the national economy. However, the dollar remains the primary reserve currency billing and wording in financial transactions. And despite its fluctuations that cause strong repercussions on the global economy. Indeed, before the

Is China a threat for the United-States? The People’s Republic of China, commonly known as China is located in East Asia and has the biggest population in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. It is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China. For a very long period, China had been under an autocratic socialist system where strict controls were imposed but after 1978, when Deng Xiaoping succeed to Mao and came to power he established a market-oriented economic development

Presentation America & Cuba Cuba is a pretty big island located in the Caribbean in the south-east of the United States, more precisely in the south of Florida . The relations between these two countries began a long time ago where they were not independent yet. Indeed, at first, America was a British colony and Cuba was under Spanish domination. But they still had relations, especially commercial. Nevertheless, America gradually gained a certain influence all over Cuba’s economy and politics

institutions, the United States hegemony explains best the international economic cooperation in the postwar era. With their economies severely damaged, the Western allies could only rely on the United States, whose power and wealth had actually grown during the Second World War. Thus, the predominance of the United States in the postwar era over the devastated European economies enabled the United States to shape a new global economic system that would benefit them. Furthermore, the United States held a central

of September 11th in the United States, many Americans were very suspicious about the “Triple Frontiers”, and said that there were units and training camps of the extremist group Hezbollah and Hamas, and even Al-Qaïda. An official of the US Government suggested to the Pentagon to launch an attack in South America in order to « surprise the terrorists ». They even pressed the Paraguayan government to accept the american military presence in the country. The United States said themselves worried

United States and the Great Depression [pic] Introduction In 1918, the United-States go out strengthened by the war. Situated in the camp of the winners, the country did not undergo the dramatic destructions of a part of Europe and the human losses are limited. USA even acquired an excellent military scale. The maritime business peaked and New York supplanted London in the financial business. Most of the European countries are put into debt: the Americans demand the repayment

found a job as a journalist at Ramparts. In his text “The World Outside”, Adam Hochschild tells what he saw and what he experienced in the United States. He denounced fundamental problems in America as the denial of participation in the Kyoto Protocol or the behavior of the U.S in front of the Vietnam War. I will first talk about the disillusion about the United states, to then talk about a nation of enlightenment. First of all, the author denounces the political problems in the U.S. as the fight against

The economy of the United States A/ First economic power First, I will talk about the economy of the United States, which is the world's largest national economy. As we can see, the Gross Domestic Product of the US was estimated to be $14.62 trillion in 2010 , which represents six times the GDP of France and a quarter of nominal global GDP. Moreover, the US has a GDP per capita among the highest of the world. POWERPOINT But the economic power of the country can also be explained by its trades

articles homonymes, voir États-Unis (homonymie), USA (homonymie) et Amérique (homonymie). Page d'aide sur l'homonymie Ne doit pas être confondu avec Amérique. États-Unis d'Amérique United States of America (en) Drapeau Drapeau des États-Unis. Blason Grand sceau des États-Unis. Description de l'image United States (orthographic projection).svg. Devise nationale « In God We Trust » (officielle, depuis 1956) (« En Dieu nous croyons1 ») « E pluribus unum » (traditionnelle, depuis 1776) (latin