US-British naval cooperation in the First World War

Oleg Mashevskyy

Sc. D. (History), Professor, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries historical faculty Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

Valeriy Chernyaev

Postgraduate student of Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries, historical faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

UDС 94(73).091

DOI http://doi.org/10.17721/2524-048X.2015.02.216-230

On the basis of the sources and scientific literature displayed naval cooperation between the United States and Britain during the First World War. The features of military operations on the sea lanes were been analyzed. Different ways of countering unrestricted submarine warfare, what was waged by Germany were been studied in detail. It’s shown the role and the place of American’s navy support for Great Britain in the struggle against German submarines. It’s also studied the influence of the US-British naval cooperation in the development of relations between the two countries.

Keywords

US-British relations, Great Britain, US Navy, naval cooperation.

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