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Our topic depend upon the following bunch of various and interesting type of questions, which contain a lot of education or helpful in terms of study material and it is very much important source of knowledge. It divided into mostly three parts, so it follow as, Which is most powerful country in the world?
Which country's films have affected the world most?
Answer is United States of America, But how?
Contribution of each country to the Global GDP,
anyone can observe that before the 1800s, India and China were the two biggest superpowers
in the world. Most of the trade and economic activities revolved around India
and China and it remained so for 1,800 years. But after the 1900s, in the last
100 years only, The USA started gaining dominance and established such a large
share in the global GDP. How did it
become possible?
We need to delve into history to understand it. In the year 1492, the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, discovered some Caribbean islands near North America. After this, the Europeans got to know of America and the colonization of America started by the Europeans. During this period, Red Indians lived in America, they are also known as Native Americans.
There were numerous different tribes. South America was mostly colonized by Spain, It is known as Latin America now. This is the reason why in most of the South American countries, Spanish is spoken.
Britain established its prior colony in America around the 1600s, France started colonizing too. Initially, these were the three main powers Britain, France and Spain. They colonized North America.
In the years that followed the population of the Native Americans living in America reduced by 80-90%. There are several various reasons for it, but the biggest cause is the diseases that the European colonizers brought with them. Diseases like smallpox and influenza. The Native Americans had not developed the immunity to fight against these. Several decades later, on July 1776, the American revolutionaries declared their Independence from the Britishers. And thus, America became a new country.
Here, the United States of America was born. All of these are major stories in their own rights. But let's move to post 1850. Because, generally America’s graph started rising only after 1850.
This was the era when the British, French and Spanish colonizers, had occupied several territories around the world. Whereas India was also a colony of the British Empire .In this circumstance, country the USA had already become a democratic country.
So any new country, thought about amalgamating with the USA, or becoming a part of the british, french or spanish colonies, or would've preferred to mix USA, because they would get the same freedom and democracy. This is why, States such as Florida, Illinois and Ohio preferred to join the United States of America, instead of remaining a colony under the Spanish or British government. In 1836, Texas was a state that got its freedom from Mexico, but Mexico was still tormenting them so much that they chose to join the USA. Similarly, the States, one after the other, kept on joining the USA and the United States of America kept on growing.
Every State had a reason
to mix with USA. But do not mistake America to have been completely harmless.
It was a democratic country sure, but intention of America was to expand its
territory as much as possible. For this reason, in 1867 the Alaskan territory
was bought by America from Russia at the price of $7.2 million. There is also
the State of Hawaii. It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, anyone may
think that the territory is so far from the USA, how can it be a part of the USA?
Because the USA annexed it, in 1898 the USA overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii and occupied its territory. Theoretically, the USA was not a colonizer like Britain, France and Spain, but it sure behaved like them. If seen from the perspective of some places. The areas of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines were also annexed by the USA in 1898 by the US President William McKinley.
The USA paid $20 million to Spain to annex the Philippines. But now, the Philippines is not in the USA. Because in 1946, the Philippines got its independence from the USA, all that money wasted. By the 1900s, the USA had become a large country. Numerous territories were a part of the USA and obviously, bigger the form of country, the bigger is in form of the economy and the GDP. This is the reason the USA occupied a significant portion of the global GDP.
But this was only the beginning, real magic happened
between 1900 and 1950. What happened during this half century decades? There
were two World War.
In Europe, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, they were fighting among themselves in the two World Wars. Even though the USA had participated in the World Wars, It supplied weapons to these countries. The Wars were not on the USA's territory. Numerous American soldiers died in the World Wars but economically, the USA was not adversely affected. In fact, the USA was the only country to have profited from the World Wars. They sold so many weapons to Germany, France and other European countries, that they made a net profit. And the countries like the UK, Germany and France were totally devastated. It was not that the USA had tried to take undue advantage of all the devastation, it was merely a matter of chance that the USA was making profits during the World Wars.
During the war began in the Europe countries, the Europeans felt that their currencies would lose their values and that their economies would crash. So, to protect their wealth, they decided to buy the US Dollars. Because the US Dollar was a stable currency and America was a very stable country during that period. So a lot of people bought US Dollars and the value of the US Dollar raised a lot. In 1944, when WWII was at its last stage, 44 Allied countries came together and decided, to keep their currencies stable, to link their currencies to the US Dollar and the US Dollar would be linked to gold. Obviously, the Allied countries won WWII and the US Dollar became the International Currency.
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