I believe it was the Stock Market Crash of 1929
<span>Erie Canal (from Lake Erie) is <span>a canal connecting America to the
western territories which was built
from 1817 to 1825 under the
supervision of DeWitt Clinton often called as “Clinton’s folly”. Some of its
effects to the United States are the following: </span></span>
<span><span>·
</span>It decreases importing and exporting products in
which it could ship millions of goods annually.</span>
<span><span>·
</span>It had connected the United States’ great lake <span>the Atlantic
Ocean.</span></span>
<span><span>·
</span>It made new York City as the busiest port overnight.
</span>
<span><span>·
</span>At its popular time, 50,000 people (or more) depended
on the canal for their livelihood making boat houses for transactions.</span>
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</span><span>It was the first public infrastructure to extend
help to hospitals and institutions.</span></span>
They faced different expectations. Sons were expected to be strong, while daughters were expected to be intellectuals.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached or further references we can say the following.
One way in which policies to maintain global influence in the United States were similar to the policies to maintain global influence in the Soviet Union during the Cold War was that the United States tries to protect its economic and political interest in other regions of the world, as for example, in the case of the Middle East.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union spread communism over many regions of the world, basically in Eastern Europe and its satellite countries such as Poland Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, and Romania.
I n a similar way, the United States has a strong influence in different parts of the world, such as in the Persian Gulf and the Arab nations, due basically to oil deposits.
