Use the drop-down menus to complete the sentences. according to the article, americans make up about of the world's population, but about of the world's "top 1%." this means that a majority of americans are in the of all earners in the world, which is defined as those earning more than $34,000 a year. the author states that this wealth is due to america's commitment to.

This was a bit hard to understand but here we go.
1. The Americans with their population of 308,745,538 according to the census from 2010 make up only 5% percent of the the total worlds population. Even though it makes up only about 5% of the world population the US is still the third largest country in the world in terms of population. 

2. Still even though the the population of the United States makes only 5% of the total world population they make up about 50% of the "world's top 1%" So that means that 50% of the biggest earners in the world are the citizens of the United States of America. 

3.To further clarify this, it means that a majority of Americans are in the 1% of all earners in the world, which is defined as those earning more than $34,000 a year. This takes into consideration the average earnings of all the citizens of the world the 1% is classified as those who earn more than 34,000 dollars.


4. This is thanks to the United States' commitment to what is called a free enterprise. Free enterprise is also called  a free market, which is an economic system in which there are few restrictions and as little as possible government meddling in which the rules of supply and demand rule.

Of course it could have been avoided. a great many scholars argue it happened because of truman's use of fear to gain support. his predecessor fdr was the most popular and charismatic president ever. truman was a machine politician chosen as the least offensive choice around for vp. had henry wallace remained vp and then president, the cold war might not have happened. or had dewey been defeated in the primaries by robert taft, and then taft defeated truman in 48, the cold war also might not have happened. taft was somewhat isolationist, opposing nato and the korean war. wallace believed truman to be unnecessarily provocative in his dealings with the soviets.of course for strong anti communists, they claim the soviets would see any sign of weakness and try to take over the world. but this is a conspiracy theory not backed by evidence. most communist movements were local and not controlled by moscow. stalin had just lost over 20 million people and was exhausted and paranoid. his number one fear was a rearmed germany allied with the us, and truman made his nightmare real with the marshall plan. truman's blunders are at least half responsible for the cold war and neither wallace nor taft would have made them.on top of that, stalin was dying and in poor health. his successor khrushchev was a reformer who ended the forced labor camps, set many political prisoners free, criticized stalin, and declined to build a powerful soviet navy to confront the us. stalin actually proposed a neutral united germany. a paranoid american gov't turned him down, guaranteeing a continued cold war for decades more.