How did the government begin to enlarge and modernize the army

Before the world war I, the US army and the marines (the last one, dissolute after the independence war by the Congress and reinstalled after the attack to pearl harbor, during the second world war) were modest and unprepared. Only after the attack by the Japanese of pearl harbor, US entered the second world war and their armed forces built and sent overseas, though, in the beginning, they were considered naïve and only by necessity trained, by the French army, during the occupation time of France, by the Nazis. By then, the weak arm forces of Europe received the new allied nations (US and Russia) as a reborn and thanks to their help. Finally, Hitler’s empire was destroyed, and the second WW won. US armed force becomes the hero and the cold war begun. His “friend” (URSS) turned into his major enemy for decades, which pushed them after their great victory in second WW, to strengthen their capabilities and power facing the possibility of a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. Then after war become a” good business” for Americans, and their armed forces gain vital importance to protect commercial interest all around the globe, such as Europe, middle east and oriental Asia.

Nowadays, The United States Navy is the largest in the world with a tonnage more significant than that of the next 17 armed together and has a budget of $ 127 300 million for the fiscal year 2007.

First, with the National Defense Act of 1916, Congress agreed to budget an enlarged and modernized army. The money was used to make the military more mobile as automobiles, trucks, and airplanes replaced horses.

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                the united states presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on tuesday, november 5, 1912. the election was a rare four-way contest.

                incumbent president william howard taft was renominated by the republican party with the support of its conservative wing. after former president theodore roosevelt failed to receive the republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party (nicknamed the "bull moose party"). it nominated roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. democrat woodrow wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, to the support of william jennings bryan, the three-time democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. eugene v. debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the socialist party of america.

                wilson won the election, gaining a large majority in the electoral college and winning 42% of the popular vote, while roosevelt won 27%, taft 23% and debs 6%. wilson became the only elected president from the democratic party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932. this was the last election in which a candidate who was not a republican or democrat came second in either the popular vote or the electoral college, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous united states participated.

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