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United Kingdom–United States relations
- Cotton diplomacyThe Confederacy's cotton embargo hurt the South more than Europe. It aimed to pull in Britain and France.
- Europe firstEarly in World War II, the US sent over three times as many soldiers to the Pacific as to Europe.
- Blockade runners of the American Civil WarA Civil War blockade runner once passed through a 125-ship Union fleet and reached safety upriver.
- Washington Naval TreatyAmerican codebreakers secretly read Japan's cables during the Washington Naval Treaty talks.
- Pan Am Flight 103At 18:58 on the 21st of December 1988, the captain of Pan Am Flight 103 made a routine call to Scottish air traffic control. He said, "Good evening, Scottish. Clipper 103. We are level at 310." The controller answered, "103, you are…
- Trent AffairA Union warship fired two shots at a British mail steamer in 1861. Sailors then seized two Confederate diplomats aboard.
- G7The G7 began in 1973 as four finance officials meeting in the White House library.
- Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter was never actually signed. Roosevelt himself said no copy of it existed that he knew of.
- Lend-LeaseRoosevelt likened Lend-Lease to lending a neighbor a garden hose. Senator Robert Taft compared it to chewing gum.
- British InvasionThe British Invasion may owe part of its start to a letter from a 15-year-old girl, Marsha Albert of Silver Spring, Maryland. She had watched a television news story about the Beatles, a story first prepared for the 22nd of November 1963…