1.++Introduction

**NATIONAL DEBT AND WARS**
 * ===Learning Objectives === ||


 * || Students will:
 * Determine if an exponential function adequately describes the changes in the National Debt from its inception;
 * Use technology (such as a spreadsheet program) to sketch graphs of functions and bar graphs of percent changes in the National Debt around war times;
 * Choose an appropriate scale and compare percent changes in the Debt around one of five major wars (the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, Vietnam War, Irag/Afganistan Wars). ||