First of all... what period? because if you are talking about this time, I think it is becaise they want to feel powerful to be able to have more allied countries in any situation, they also do it because they want to control most of the world natural sources that other countries have.
Al-Qaeda's main targets on September 11, 2001 were the two World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington. A fourth flight (United Airlines Flight 93) crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the hijacked cockpit. It is believed that this flight was intended to crash into the White House in Washington, DC.
<span>Besides giving young men a job, one of the primary purposes of the Civilian Conservation Corps was: to buy homes on easy mortgage terms
Basically, Civilian conservation corps help unemployed men to find some economic relief during the economic depression. With easy mortage terms, it would be a lot easier for the unemployed to kept their homes from being taken away</span>
The cheap labor in the form of slaves.