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To: average joe who wrote (41624)	11/21/2005 10:21:42 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 90947

"There is no doubt Canada was in the war much earlier than the U.S. even contemplated being in the war." Well, that is very true. Canada/Britain declared against Germany = Aug. 4, 1914 United States declared against Germany = April 6, 1917 United Kingdom declared against Austria/Hungary = Aug. 4, 1914 United States declared against Austria/Hungary = Dec. 7, 1917 _______________________ But the U.S. was more independent of ties to other Nations and did prefer an isolationist policy at that time. Canada's entrance was really automatic given that we were British subjects. Things being different we may well have forged an isolationist alliance with the U.S. But of course things were what they were--not what they might have been. As a rather amusing note: Romania re-entered the war ONE DAY before it ended thus becoming the last country to declare war!