Answer: d. the Spanish-American War.
Explanation:
The excerpt is part of President Roosevelt´s first State of the Union address, in 1902, when he stated firmly that the canal was a prime priority for his government. The Spanish-American War had proven that a faster water crossing between the Us´s east and west coast was very much needed.
By 1903 the United States had helped Panama become independent from Columbia, and bought a 10-mile wide piece of property in order o build the Panama Canal.
Latex and petroleum are two nonmetals used in paint
The correct answer is A. Marshall Plan.
The treaty of Versailles was an international agreement that put an end to the WWI and established an economic recovery plan for the reconstruction of the victorious countries. This treaty put all the responsibility of the war on the central powers, who had to pay exorbitant compensations to the allies.
The Marshall plan was a United States initiative to help Western European countries to recover after WWII, mainly the UK, France, and Western Germany. Its main goal was to avoid Communism to spread over Western Europe and to make of these countries important allies of the United States against the Soviet Union.
Due to the common objectives of these two economic recovery plans and the context in which they were applied, we can see they share many similarities.