Two actions taken by the United States government that have been influenced by geographic factors?

I need help with this US History practice question. I don't have any ideas so far. What I have to do is above ^ and includes:


-State one reason the United States took the action


-Describe how the geographic factor influenced the action.


-Discuss the impact of the action on the US
Two actions taken by the United States government that have been influenced by geographic factors?
Most of these actions will be related to naval control of choke points on the world's shipping routes.


Try Somalia, Panama or Hawaii for examples.
Two actions taken by the United States government that have been influenced by geographic factors?
#1 cuban missle crisis





The same missles were in russia at one time, however we would have had some sort of warning of their launch, and the ability to counter-launch, hence 'mutual destruction' prevented anyone from attacking. However, with Cuba so close, those missles could launch and hit the US before we could Counter-launch





#2 choice of where to dig the Panama canal...of course, we dug it at the most narrow point, but our decision to even dig a canal at all was influenced by the geography of having a big honking contient called South America hanging onto the bottom of North America, causing us to have such a long voyage from New York to San Francisco