Ch. 24 P. 1

Throughout this reading one of the major things that caught my interest was how the United States basically fell from being a major superpower in different ways.  For example, in the first half of the century it had very many exports and extended loans worldwide.  In the later second half of the century it had more imports than exports and shifted to a loan absorbing country.  The U.S. also gradually became less patriotic because in both world wars many contributed to the war in the form of building products for war or going to war.  After that, the Vietnam War brought opposing viewpoints together and many times clashed.  This is a similar approach to the more recent opposing viewpoints of the Iraq and Afghan war in which many opposed the wars.  With these differences I feel that the U.S. in a way has at least begun to lose the role of a superpower.