Items tagged "United States": 3

However Hitler may not exactly be saluting! In 1938 the United States was demanding the repayment of Austria’s debt after Hitler invaded and assumed control of the country. The United States believed that despite the change in government, the country should still be accountable for their debt. The U.S. insisted that Hitler should repay all the…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt sure looks happy. Here he is providing American battleships to England as part of the Lend-Lease Bill of 1941. This bill allowed the United States to lease ships to the British under the understanding that this would protect the United States from being drawn into World War II. Roosevelt would have wanted to avoid…

April 23, 1961. The United States has had enough. They have put up with the Russians in Cuba long enough. It’s time for action. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of April 17-19 1961, the United States was ready to put on it’s butt-kicking Monroe Doctrine boots. The Doctrine upheld the ideals of US foreign policy with stressed no outside…