It still seemed most unlikely, when the second war came to its end, that the United States would actually accept the obligations and commitments of a permanent formal alliance.
When, after a period of mounting tensions, a U.S. sentry fired on Filipino soldiers outside Manila in February, 1899, the second war erupted, just days before the Senate ratified a treaty with Spain securing American sovereignty over the islands in exchange for twenty million dollars.
There are those who see the fight against al-Qaeda as a war like the second world war or the cold war.
Had the United States been committed to intervene in full strength from the first moment of a European war, the first world war would probably, and the second world war would certainly, never have happened.
Bond investors have lost comparable sums only as a result of big wars or big inflations or both (such as during and after the first world war, or between the second world war and 1981, when real bond returns fell by 66%).
Mr. Roberts, a historian, is author most recently of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011).
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After the Great Depression and the Second World War the U.S. helped create and nurture the institutions that enabled war-torn Europe and Japan to make rapid recoveries.
When the Nazis took Holland during the Second World War, the Dutch Royal Family escaped to Canada and made Ottawa their home-in-exile.
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In 1939, at the start of the second world war, the government decided it needed some economists and Sir Alec was recruited.
If colonisation assisted Western hegemony, the end of the colonial era after the second world war set the stage for the rise of China.
But all the opinion polls that are done suggest that the victory in the Second World War is the single unifying national myth for Russian people today.
Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.
Frederick Terman, an engineer who joined the faculty in 1925, became the dean of the School of Engineering after the Second World War and the provost in 1955.
"This is well illustrated by the rich harvests of fishermen after the Second World War and the rebuilding of North Sea herring stocks after the decline of the 1970s, " said Holm.
Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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W. Brands, a prolific author and teacher at the University of Texas, is a different sort of history: a clear, broad summary of events at home and abroad from the end of the second world war to the election of Barack Obama.
Given that these will be America's first military tribunals since the aftermath of the second world war, the move would appear to be a reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling, though unlike other detainees the three had been charged some months ago.
Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.
Did the fact that Europe was destroyed during the Second World War actually benefit the United States?
But the NHS does not belong to Labour any more than victory in the second world war belongs to the Conservatives.
The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.
Anyone who has done anything but the most cursory reading about the Eastern Front in the Second World War knows that the use of human wave attacks is hardly a uniquely Persian phenomenon.
Sir Ronnie said it was a "humbling experience" to see the RUC being honoured for its bravery and dedication in the same way as the people of Malta were applauded during the Second World War by receiving the George Cross.
The group, which was founded by scientists who had worked on the first atomic bombs in the second world war, listed the continuing crisis between India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir as one of their concerns.
One of the aims of aerial bombing in the second world war was to terrorise the civilian population into surrender.
The swift adoption of television in American homes after the second world war is contrasted with the slower spread of appliances like dishwashers.
In 1940, when the Russians occupied Latvia, Mrs Wraga was moved to Switzerland, and after the second world war she worked for the State Department in Washington.
So critics of R2P may well use the argument that five victors of the second world war should not have the crucial say as to when coercion may be used.
Perhaps more than domestic politics, it was the expanding scope of American foreign policy after the second world war that brought on the need for greater diversity in the foreign service.
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