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A synthesis can be made between European nations before World War 1 and modern day United States. During the period before WW1, many of the European nations had strong nationalist movements with their citizens wanting their own countries to outshine others when it came to competition for colonies or in the race to the South Pole. This is similar to the US today as before the 2016 election, a strong nationalist movement was created with the slogan, "Make America Great Again". The citizens of the US similarly wanted their country to outshine others and promoted bringing back jobs to the US to promote the economy and wanted trade deals such as NATO renegotiated to benefit the US rather than other countries. This nationalism is also similar in the sense that European countries back then gained hostility towards other nations when they interfered with their own country's greatness such as the British-German and French-German hostilities. This is similar to the US today as they are putting in place bans upon various countries that they feel are a threat to their national security and are interfering with the United States' prosperity. These hostilities are similar to the hostilities formed prior to WW1 as they are upon countries that are seen as harms to the nationalist countries.
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A synthesis can be made between the 14 points stated by President Woodrow Wilson during WW1 and the Ten Commandments inscribed in stone in roughly 1500 B.C.E. Both the 14 points and 10 commandments were guiding principles issued for all to listen and adhere to in their times. Both were created to establish rather progressive principles to incur changes in their times as the 14 points promoted Self-Determination in a period of colonialism and the 10 commandments promoted morals of monotheism in a time of predominantly polytheism. Both of the two were highly regarded and revered by some at the time and ignored by others. Eventually, they both went down as world-altering lists of progressive thought that changed the way people thought and challenged cultural beliefs of the time.
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