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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (397)	1/29/2005 3:05:40 PM
From: fresc	Respond to of 42652

Spoken like a true O'Reilly Freak! Canada entered the 1939-1945 War on 10th September 1939. Within two months the first contingents of Canadian troops arrived in the United Kingdom to supplement the British Expeditionary Forces (BEF). Forestalled by the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk and the Channel ports, Canada's role became one of defence of the British Isles. Far across the globe a small force of Canadians arrived in Hong Kong in time to meet the Japanese invasion, and fought with the British, Indian and Hong Kong forces in defence of the colony until the surrender on Christmas Day 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States of America (1933-1945) initially followed a very strong political demand to remain neutral and isolate the country from foreign wars, but he realized that the nazi aggression was a global threat and the total opposite to the values of democracy and freedom, and persuaded the Congress to allow selling weapons to Britain and France, later declaring that the US will become the "arsenal of democracy". In may 1941, when german expansion and its attacks on british shipping to the US increased, he declared a state of national emergency, and realistically assumed that US forces will eventually have to participate in fighting against nazi Germany. When germany invaded russia, he extended the military aid to russia too, and enormous amounts of american military equipment and material were transferred to Russia during the war, allowing the russian military industry to focus on mass production of the main weapon systems and ammunition. Despite the strong sympathy of the american public in support of Britain and against nazism, only an attack on the US could persuade the american public to go to war. The attack eventually came from the opposite direction when Japan surprise attacked the US naval and air bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 7, 1941. The destructive surprise attack ended american isolationism and the US joined the war and allied with Britain and Russia to defeat the aggressors axis of nazi Germany, militarist Japan, and fascist Italy. The mighty american industry went into full war production effort which dwarfed those of both allies and enemies, allowing the relatively small US military forces to rapidly grow to a mighty force, and defeat Japan and help Britain and Russia defeat Germany and Italy. President Roosevelt died in april 1945, shortly before the end of the war, and was succeeded by vice president Harry S. Truman