... has tried to achieve an open world economy for over a century. From the attempts to keep the open door policy in China to Article VII of the Lend-Lease act, free trade has been seen as central to American security. The United States, in 1939, forced Great Britain to begin to move away from its imperial economic system. Cordell Hull, then ... , as well as meaning that Great Britain would no longer be able to compete economically with the United States. However, Churchill did eventually agree to it, realizing that without the help of the United States, he would lose much more than Great Br...

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