The “rock-solid” relationship between the United States and Britain that Former President Barack Obama described in his March 2012 meetings with Former  British Prime Minister David Cameron was forged in the fires of World War I and World War I. Despite remaining neutral in both interests, the United States allied itself with  Britain.

World War I

The First World War ended in August 1914, the result of a long period of European empire abuse and disarmament.

The US sought neutrality in the war, having experienced its own brush with imperialism in the Spanish-American War of 1898 (which Britain ratified), and the disastrous Filipino insurrection, which precipitated further foreign shocks in the US.

However, the United States hoped for neutral trade rights; It wanted to trade with Westerners on both sides of the war, including Great Britain and Germany. Both countries opposed American policy, but Great Britain began to intercept American ships suspected of carrying goods to Germany, and American submarines began sinking American merchant ships.

Over 128 American women died and a German U-boat captured the British luxury liner Lusitania (with offensive weapons in its arsenal), US President Woodrow Wilson and his Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan successfully “banned” Germany from submarine warfare.

Unbelievably, a sub was meant to indicate a target ship that it was about torpedoes that could destroy the crewed ship.

By early 1917, however, Germany had abandoned limited subterfuge and reverted to “unprecedented” subterfuge. By now, American merchants were showing a mutual bias towards Great Britain and the British would rightly let renewed German sub-invasions weaken their trans-Atlantic supply lines.

Britain’s activism allowed the United States to enter the war as an ally—its manpower and industrial might. When British intelligence received information from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann encouraging Mexico to cooperate with Germany and create a conflict of interest along the US Southwest border, they quickly informed the Americans. The Zimmerman telegram was genuine, however, at first glance, it seems that British propagandists could bring America into the war. The telegram, with Germany’s unexpected sub-war, was the tipping point for the United States. It declared war on Germany in April 1917.

The U.S. Enacted a Selective Service Act, and in the spring of 1918, the German army was defeated in France with enough troops to aid England and France. In 1918, American forces under the command of General John J. “Black Jack” Pending pushed through the German lines, and British and French forces periodically held the German French in place. Meuse-Ergonne was forced to surrender to a defiant Germany.

Treaty of Versailles

Compared to France, Great Britain and the United States took more liberal terms in the end-of-war agreement at Worliss, France.

France, having survived two German invasions in the last 50 weeks, demanded severe punishment for Germany, including the payment of “war crimes” and forced reparations. The U.S. and U.K. We’re not very enthusiastic about the recovery, and in fact, the U.S. Loan to Germany in 1909 helped to take over the debt.

However, the US and Great Britain did not agree on everything. President Wilson later forwarded his optimistic Fourth Point as a blueprint for Europe for war. Imperialism and secret deals in planning to end; National self-reliance for all countries; and a global organization—the League of Nations—to arbitrate disputes. Great Britain did not accept Wilson’s anti-imperialist aims, but it did accept the League, which the Americans – fearful of further international involvement – did not.

Washington Naval Conference

In 1921 and 1922, the US and Great Britain sponsored the first of several naval conferences designed to regulate total war tonnage. The conference sought to limit the Japanese naval buildup. The resulting convention is a ratio of 5:5:3:1.75:1.75. Simply put, for every five tons of war food the US and British displaced, Japan could only have three tons, and France and Italy each could have 1.75 tons.

The agreement fell apart in 1930 when militarist Japan and fascist Italy rejected it, even though Great Britain tried to negotiate it.

World War II

After England and France invaded Poland in 1939 and declared war on Germany, America again sought to remain neutral. When Germany defeated France, it invaded England in the summer of 1940, resulting in the War of Britain pulling America out of isolationism.

The United States began a military draft and began building new military equipment. The battle also began to initiate merchant traders carrying goods from the North Atlantic to England (a practice it abandoned in 1937 with the cash and carry policy); England traded World War I-era naval destroyers in exchange for naval bases; and started the Lend Patti program. Franklin D. In the United States through Lend-Lease. Roosevelt called the “Shaw of Democracy “Tragar,” said to build and supply war material to Great Britain and fight other Axis powers.

During World War II, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill held many personal conferences.

They first found the coast of Newfoundland on August 1941 at the Naval Shipyard. There they issued the Atlantic Charter, an agreement that outlined the goals of the war.

Of course, America wasn’t formally in the war, but FDR couldn’t do everything for the English short of a formal war. When Japan attacked its Pacific Fleet in Pacific Harbor on December 7, 1941, Churchill had already arrived in Washington where he was vacationing by the time the U.S. Officially joined the war. He discussed strategy with FDR at the Arcadia Conference, and he addressed a joint session of the US Congress – a rare event for a foreign diplomat.

During the war, FDR and Churchill met in 1943 at the Casablanca Conference in North Africa, where they announced a policy of “non-voluntary surrender” of executive forces. In 1944 they met with Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. There they discussed battle plans and the opening of the Second Army front in France. In January 1945, with the war winding down, they met at Yalta on the Black Sea, where, again with Stalin, they discussed war-portable policy and the creation of the United Nations.

During the war, the U.S. And Great Britain assisted in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany, and conducted numerous island and naval campaigns in the Pacific. At the end of the war, the United States and Britain divided Germany’s occupation with France and the Soviet Union, according to the Yalta Agreement. During the war, Great Britain recognized that the United States had surpassed it as the world’s top power by accepting a hierarchy of command that placed Americans in supreme command positions in all major theatres of war.