Generally speaking, with respect to global connections, association with "the European Union" offers the brightest immediate future for many African countries, since this contains many countries as opposed to being a single country.
It has been primarily "Southwest Asia," that the United States has been militarily involved in the 1990s and into the early decades of the new millennium, since this qualifies as the "Middle East," where the US continues to fight terrorism.
The Zimmerman telegraph, was a telegraph from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance in which Germany would give the land that Mexico lost to the United States if the Mexican people would fight the United States and keep them out of the war
To connect to our communities: The 13 colonies were the basis of the first states that made up America. ... The struggle to resist tyrannical efforts by the British Parliament would lead to the American Revolution, which yielded the Constitution of the United States and other important documents and principles.