Great Britain found itself standing alone against Hitler's war machine, after the rapid collapse of France. Despite the resistance of the new prime minister, Winston Churchill, Great Britain was in a difficult position. Churchill desperately called the US for military supplies, receiving as a response, the promise from President Roosevelt to provide all possible “aid to the Allies short of war.”
Theodore Roosevelt It was in a US cavalry unit which made a heroic charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War. Later he <span>was made known nationally as an officer in the Rough Riders. </span>
