Discuss Anglo-American relations from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of World War II. Why would Bitain and the United States have become such close allies?

Running head : Anglo-American Relations

Anglo-American Relations

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Introduction "THESE two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies , the British Empire and the United States , will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . For my own part , looking out upon the future , I do not view the process with any misgivings . I could not stop it if I wished no one can stop it Like the Mississippi , it just keeps rolling

along . Let it roll . Let it roll on full flood , inexorable , irresistible , benignant , to broader lands and better days " Winston Churchill 's words of August , 1940 embody the confidence with which Americans and Englishmen regarded the future of Anglo-American relations after they fought together as allies in World War II . Indeed , Anglo-American friendship until it was subjected , for the first time since 1940 , to notable strain by the China crisis which began in 1949 , came almost to be taken for granted on both sides of the Atlantic . This was , perhaps , natural . The two peoples had always been conscious , even when serious disagreements existed between them , of their peculiar relationship . In 1843 , for example , Dickens heard England referred to as that "unnat 'ral old parent , and by 1900 in England , and soon thereafter in America , the idea of war between the two countries had come to be almost unthinkable

But though it may have become natural by 1945 to take...