What was the US trying to do in Europe and Japan?

Iam gonna fail this class ! in 2001 mexico imposed a 20% tax on all soft drinks not made from sugar cane high fractals corn sit-up which is made from corn,is often used in place of cane sugar to manufacture soft drinks. which nation would most likely be impacted by mexico’s policy change?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What event from world war l does the image most likely depict