<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lord Lovat:
i never meant the usa profited majorly in a finacail sense but they did profit more than any other county. after ww2 america emereged as the new global superpower where as some one like britian lost its role in the world it was battered, in debt lost its empire and economy was in ruins france had to set about reconstructing irs country almost from scratch whereas amerca just went from streght to strengh and most certanly wasnt out of pocket thats wot i meant<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The US came out a superpower because it had the industrial strenght to build war materials for itself AND for it's allies...thus fighting with and profiting from it's own production. Countries like Britian and France did not have the ability to produce like the US so thus were customers of US goods...and were put into debt by there own production.
Not to mention the fact that Britian and france suffered from bombings (especially france obviosly) The US suffered nothing in that respect.
It really comes down to this...the US had the ability to produce vast amounts of military goods..it would be VERY humane for the US to just "donate" these items...but if that were the case eventually the US's economy would fall if it constantly put out without income.
Thanks to US production, after france was liberated...it fought the germans out of it's country along with her US and British allies with mostly American equipment. Thanks to US mass production and selling of equipmemt, in this case to France. Also don't forget the US liberty ships that "fed" Britian.
The war was won basiclly because of the US's ability to manufactor on a mass scale...it would not have been able to keep that pace up without killing it own economy without actually selling the equipment.