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United Kingdom–United States relations
- Cotton diplomacyCotton diplomacy was the Confederate States' calculated attempt to weaponize a raw material against Europe. In 1858, Senator James Hammond of South Carolina…
- Europe firstEurope first named a strategy the United States never quite followed in its own opening moves. In the first six months after the US entered World War II in…
- Blockade runners of the American Civil WarBlockade runners of the American Civil War were among the most audacious vessels ever to work American waters. On the night of the 5th of December 1861, the…
- Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades.
- Trent AffairThe Trent Affair began on the 8th of November 1861, when a Union warship fired two shots across the bow of a British Royal Mail packet steamer in the Bahama…
- G8A 1975 summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- G7The G7, the Group of Seven, began not in a grand hall of international diplomacy but in a library. On the 25th of March 1973, George Shultz, the United…
- Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter was born on the 14th of August 1941, in the waters of Placentia Bay off the coast of Newfoundland, months before the United States had…
- Lend-LeaseLend-Lease was not charity. It was not a loan in any conventional sense. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law on the 11th of…
- British InvasionIn the late 1950s, American rock and blues musicians became popular with British youth. This rebellious tone and image sparked a cultural shift across the…