For resources and to prove that they were powerful. Their initial holdings before WW2 were not enough to fuel the war machine it wanted to become.
The Venezuelan Boundary Dispute officially began in 1841, when the Venezuelan Government protested alleged British encroachment on Venezuelan territory. In 1814, Great Britain had acquired British Guiana (now Guyana) by treaty with the Netherlands. Because the treaty did not define a western boundary, the British commissioned Robert Schomburgk, a surveyor and naturalist, to delineate that boundary.
The Policy of Vietnamization, it combatted the spread of communism by training and equipping the Southern Vietnamese to fight with Americans.
Magna Carta. This document limited the power of the monarchy, and parliment wished they respected that document.
The Federal Reserve is responsible for money related arrangement for the United States. Fiscal arrangement needs to do with controlling the supply of cash to either help the economy or moderate it. For this situation, the economy is not doing all around ok.