Island hopping is the U.S. strategy against Japan in ww2. By taking important Pacific islands and building military bases on those islands, the U.S. slowly advanced towards mainland Japan and prepared for invasion.
A country to the north that is really cold, has a stable government, is HUGE, and one of the countries that we signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) with.
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Perhaps the amount of wars, or death caused during this period.