Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
a. free trade was essential to a nation's economic health.
b. control of the sea was the key to world domination.
c. the United States should continue its policy of isolationism.
d. the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
e. the construction of a large navy was not necessary for a nation to achieve world domination.
b
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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