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    RISE OF AMERICARISE OF AMERICA First world war-

    Isolationalism

    Declaration Of War On Germany

    Recognition Of U.S As A Powerful Country.

    SECOND WORLD WAR AND RECOVERY FROM GREAT

    DEPRESSION.

    COLD WAR(1945-1991)FALL OF USSR

    SOURCE-

    http://www.firstworldwar.com/usnavy_gill.htmlLUV-55

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    AMERICAS POLITICAL

    SYSTEM

    U.S Has A Federal System-individual States Each With Its Own

    Government, and A Central Federal Or National Government.

    Powers Are Distributed Between State And Central

    Government.

    National Government Is Divided Into 3 Parts-legislative Branch,

    executive Branch And Judicial Branch.

    SOURCE-

    www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Americanpoliticalsystem.htmlLUV-55

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    AMERICAS POLITICAL

    SYSTEM

    Members Are Selected By The Public Or The

    Population Of The Country.

    These 538 Members Then Elect The President.

    The President Is Elected For A Fixed Term Of

    Four Years And May Serve A Maximum Of TwoTerm.

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    SOURCE-

    www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Americanpoliticalsystem.

    html

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    AMERICAS POLITICAL

    SYSTEM

    Two Main Political Parties-democratic And

    Republic. Only Country 2 Have 2 Party System.

    Delegates Are Appointed By Each Party To Every

    State. These Delegates Select Their Own Party

    Representative Which Then Competes With Other

    Partys Representative For The Post Of The

    President.SOURCE-

    www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Americanpoliticalsystem.

    htmlLUV-55

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    AMERICAS MILITARY STRENGTH

    USA CHINA RUSSIA INDIA

    Defense

    Budget

    $515,400,000,000 $59,000,000,000 $43,200,000,

    000

    $32,350,000,

    000

    Navy Ships 1559 760 526 143

    Aircrafts 18169 1900 3888 1007

    Destroyers 50 21 15 8

    Helicopters 4593 491 2652 240

    Serviceable

    Airports

    14947 461 1260 346

    Aircraft

    Carriers

    11 1 1 0

    Submarines 75 68 61 18

    Sources: US Library of Congress; Central

    Intelligence AgencyNISHANT-23

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    AMERICAS MILITARY

    STRENGTH

    History of the United States armed forces-1975.

    The U.S. military is one of the largest militaries

    in terms of number of personnel.

    The U.S. spends about $664 billion per year on

    its military, constituting approximately 40

    percent of world military expenditures.

    Sources: US Library of Congress; Central

    Intelligence Agency

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    AMERICAS MILITARY

    STRENGTH U.S. armed forces are stationed at more than 820

    installations in at least 135 countries.

    Some of the largest contingents are the 142,000

    military personnel in Iraq, the 56,200 in Germany the

    33,122 in Japan (USFJ), 28,500 in Republic of Korea

    (USFK), 31,100 in Afghanistan and approximately 9,700

    each in Italy and the United Kingdom.

    Sources: US Library of Congress; Central

    Intelligence Agency

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    USA CONTRIBUTION IN

    TECHNOLOGY

    Silicon Valley Host to the biggest Technology companiesin the world

    Host to most of the biggest software and chipmanufacturing companies in the world.

    Google : Dominates the global search engine market with around

    86% of market share.

    Fortune magazine's best place to work in.

    Has got around 150 domains in the Internet space.

    Intel :

    World's largest semiconductor chip maker has got over76% market share.

    SOURCE-

    marketshare.hitslink.com/-market-share.aspx GOPALKRISHNA-56

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    USA CONTRIBUTION IN

    EDUCATION

    US is the host to top Universities of the world.

    6 out of top 10, 13 out of top 20 and 32 out of top 100Universities of the world belong to US.

    US has got over 14 million higher education students - thehighest in the world.

    In spite of the financial crisis of 2008 there was rapid rise in the

    number of foreign students enrolments.

    SOURCE-

    www.guardian.co.uk/education/datablog/2

    009/oct/08/to -100-universities-world GOPALKRISHNA-56

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    TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES OF

    THE WORLD2009 Rank University Name Country1 HARVARD University United States

    2 University Of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom

    3 YALE University United States United States

    4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom

    5 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom

    6 University Of OXFORD United Kingdom

    7 University Of CHICAGO United States

    8 PRINCETON University United States

    9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute Of Technology(MIT)

    United States

    10 CALIFORNIA Institute Of Technology (Caltech) United States

    SOURCE-

    www.guardian.co.uk/education/datablog/

    2009/oct/08/to -100-universities-world GOPALKRISHNA-56

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    AMERICA AN ECONOMIC GIANT

    Overall GDP - $14.26 trillion

    Per capita GDP - $46,900

    EXPORTS - $994.7 billion

    FDI - $2.398 trillion

    Electricity Production $4.11

    GDP composition-

    SERVICE SECTOR 76.9 %

    INDUSTRY 21.9%

    AGRICULTURE 1.2%

    SOURCE-

    www.cia.gov/library/publications/

    the-world-fact book/

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    AME I AN LLAR

    Global urrency reserves Medium of exchange

    AMERICA AN ECONOMIC

    GIANT

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    SOME BLIPS IN THE ECONOMIC

    HISTORY OF USA

    ECONOMIC DEPRESSION 1929

    BACK ON TRACKINBACK ON TRACKIN

    A MATTER OF TIMEA MATTER OF TIME

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    SOME BLIPS IN THE ECONOMIC

    HISTORY OF USA

    SUBPRIME CRISES 2007 &

    So called

    RECESSION

    USA ECONOMYUSA ECONOMY

    BACK ONBACK ON

    TRACK!!!!TRACK!!!!

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    AMERI AANECONOMIC

    IANT

    The STIMULUS Package-

    Middle-Class Assistance Direct Aid to States

    Infrastructure Development

    Unemployment Tax cuts

    SOURCE-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Re

    covery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

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    AMERICA AN ECONOMIC

    GIANT

    The STIMULUS Package-

    AIG-$69.5 billion

    GM-$50.7 billion

    CITIBANK-$45 billion

    JP Morgan-$25 billion

    American express-$4 billion

    SOURCE-

    http://bailout.propublica.org/main/list/i

    ndex#When:18:01:00Z

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    PATIENTS FILED BY DIFFERENT

    COUNTRIES

    31

    28.8

    11.9

    4.73

    2.2 1.6 1.4 1.20.8 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.2

    0

    5

    10

    15

    20

    25

    30

    35

    Country wise share of world triadic patents

    SOURCE-

    http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/

    Share-of-world-patents.aspxVARUN-44

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    USA CONTRIBUTION IN

    SPACE RESEARCH

    US has been a major contributor and leader in

    space research technology.

    Some of major achievements by US :First Communication satellite 1958

    First Weather satellite 1959

    First humans on moon 1969

    First Close up photos of Moon and Mars 1964

    SOURCE-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_RaceVARUN-44

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    US AID TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES

    US has a long history in extending help to the people

    around the world in making their lives better.

    US plays a major role in the IMF, World Bank and

    United nations.

    In 2005, loans and investment by U.S. companies to

    the developing world totaled $69.2 billion

    In 2005 the U.S. Official Development Assistance(ODA) was $28 billion - the largest of all official

    donations by an individual country

    SOURCE-

    www.globalissues.orgSACHIN-34

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    US AID TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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    US AID TO FOREIGN

    COUNTRIES

    The Haiti earthquake was one of the deadliest in

    the history claimed around 200000 lives.

    President Obama declared one of the largest

    relief efforts in U.S. history to help Haiti's

    earthquake victims.

    The U.S. Agency for International Development

    (USAID) dispatched a Disaster AssistanceResponse Team (DART)

    SOURCE-

    www.globalissues.org

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    FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES

    The US lays claim to the most global

    giants, followed by Japan, and then France.

    4 out of top 10

    29 out of top 100 and

    140 out of fortune 500 companies are US based.

    Out of the top 10 companies from US are Exxon

    Mobil, Wal-Mart Stores, Chevron and Conoco

    Phillips.

    SOURCE-

    money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/

    2009/full_list/101_200.html

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    AMERICA VERSUS ?

    COLD WAR-USA VERSUS SOVIET UNIOUN

    INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS COLLECTIVISM

    1980S- USA VERSUS JAPAN

    SOURCE-

    http://www.amazon.com VISHAL 46

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    CHINAS PROBLEMS

    China is an export driven economy and USA is aconsumer driven economy.

    Total exports-1.194trillion$ (2009)

    US contribution-20%Chinas ageing workforce and one child policy.

    Age structure- 0-14(19.8%)

    15-64(70.6%) 65 and above(9.5%)

    SOURCE-

    www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook

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    CHINAS PROBLEMS

    Chinas bubble threat-

    Fiscal package-4 trillion Yuan ($585 bn)

    Bank credit up by 30% in 2009

    CPI up by 1.9% and purchasing prices for

    manufactured goods increased by 1.7% y-o-ybasis in dec,09.

    SOURCE-

    htt ://www.forbes.com/ VISHAL 46

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    AMERICAN DOMINANCE

    OVER CHINAIn order to match USA,China would have to :

    Have an economy of nearly same size as that

    of USA.

    Create original consumer brands like Coca-cola , Nike, Mcdonalds , Microsoft, Xerox

    , Google.

    Have a military capable of waging warsanywhere in the globe.

    SOURCE-

    http://www.thefuturist.com

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    AMERICAN DOMINANCE

    OVER CHINA

    Have major universities. 6 out of top 10

    universities are American whereas china has

    none.

    Example-Harvard ,Yale ,California . Be a Leader in entertainment and culture.

    Be a leader in space research.

    Have to make Yuan an international currency.

    SOURCE-

    http://www.bls.gov.com

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    AMERICAN DOMINANCE

    OVER CHINA

    GDP per capita-

    China-6500$

    USA-46400$

    Average American household owns 2.3 cars, while

    a large chinese household dont own a car.

    Chinas oil consumption per capita is one-tenth of

    US. Americas $6.4 billion dollar arms deal with

    Taiwan.

    SOURCE-

    http://www.economictimes.com/

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    AMERICAN DOMINANCE

    OVER CHINA

    DALAI LAMA-OBAMA MEET

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