What country paid the U.S. back? There is only one country.
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The Country that paid the us back after ww11 is Germany
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In 2004 the US gave less than O.2% of their GDP to help developing nations. While they were the largest contributor in dollars in 2004, the US has a long way to go before achieving the UN's goal. \nThe only five countries to have reached the UN's goal in 2004 were Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden and the Netherlands. Norway had the highest contribution in percentage of GDP at 0.87%.
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did you know china pays most of the u.s. debt? so technically.. they own us. think about it.
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The USA\n\nAny country that isn't the USA\n\nGOD BLESS AMERICA\nMANY THANKS TO ALL THE COURAGEOUS MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT/FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM
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okay um.. the answer is  Britain, Belgium, and Germany
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I heard 25% of our deficit is owed to Japan and China.  I don't know the exact amount per country.
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if you cannot feel any difference in your country, elsewhere in the world it can be felt by the way the governments reacted. Everyone is happy that America will measure better its foreign policy before taking any radical action, like war. A single country cannot control a whole world.
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The United States and Britain!\nAnd here is the reason for it since the first World War!\n\nhttp://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1330/default.aspx
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1) The US government, despite its pledge of neutrality, extended a large amount of credit to Great Britain starting in 1940; the British used it to buy everything from guns and ammunition to merchant ships.  US merchant ships carried cargo to England before we were involved in the war (US merchant ships were also supplying Nazi Germany, but on a much smaller scale).  President Roosevelt persuaded Congress to approve the "Lend-Lease" program, in which we gave Britain about 100 old US Navy destroyers in exchange for leases on British territory in the Western Hemisphere.\n\n2) Hitler marched his troops into the Rhine, the Sudetenland, the rest of Czechoslovakia, and Austria over the protests of Britain, France, and the US.  On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, thereby starting WW2 in Europe.  The Poles fought valiantly against Hitler's forces; when they took refuge behind the Vistula River, and it seemed they could hold on until the arrival of the British and French, Stalin entered the war and invaded Poland from the east.  About 2 weeks later it was all over for the Poles.\nStalin also invaded Finland on the flimsy pretext of protecting his northern frontier.  The Finns, although outnumbered and outgunned, held off the Soviets for several months.\nJapan annexed Korea in 1910.  The militarists of Japan also invaded Manchuria (China) in 1933, trying to create what they called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."  In their delirious minds, they thought that Asia would thrive if all of it was under their rule.  The rest of Asia disagreed.  Japanese brutality in Manchuria caused the US to enact a trade embargo against Japan.  The Japanese used the embargo as an excuse for the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, thereby precipitating America's entry into WW2.\n\n3) WW2 is thought of as "the good war" because in modern times, the difference between dictatorship and freedom was never so stark.  On one side were the Axis powers, odious dictatorships all, engaging in sneak attacks, breaking every treaty they signed, and trampling on the freedoms of the sovereign nations they invaded (not to mention those of their own people).  Arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting (mostly) of the democratically-run, freedom-loving nations of the world.  Hitler and Tojo thought that "Deutschland über Alles" and "Dai Nippon" would rule the world through their "Übermensch" and "Bushido" warriors.  But both of them underestimated the fury of aroused democracies.  To paraphrase Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack: "I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."  He was right.\nThe Soviets' entry on the Allied side of the war complicated the moral equation a bit.  They had a history of engineering mass repression, purges, and widespread starvation against their own people ever since the Bolshevik triumph in the Russian Revolution of 1918.  Stalin was quite happy to help Hitler carve up eastern Europe when it suited his purposes.  And the Soviets, despite warnings that the Nazis were preparing to invade Russia, supplied the Nazis with much-needed food and fuel right up to the day of the Nazi invasion in 1940.
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Your question makes no sense what so ever. We don't help underpriviledged nations? Wasnt it the US who donated approximately 7.3 billion dollars to asia after the tsunami hit in 04. this includes money, food, goods and serices. wasnt it the US who donated over 500 million to pakistan after the earthquake last year? this seems like alot of money to me I mean hell I dont see myself ever getting to see the kind of money that we donated to these two natural disasters but I guee Bill Gates might. as it stands the united states is one of the first countries people turn to in time of need. So i relly am not sure where you are getting your facts from.
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The USA, but it's not true.
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I don't know, but here is something that might help or not. In 2001 prior to 9-11 there was a conference in Africa. During this conference the African nations asked for reparations from slavery. The European delegations said no because they would not know where to begin in who  or how to pay and that they would go broke. But they did offer an apology and said that their ancestors were wrong. Bush had the Americans leave the conference at that moment refusing to apologize. Citing that America would not be forced into a corner etc.
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When nations of the world refuse to trade in usa dollars.If that ever happens america is in trouble Theres not enough gold in fort knox to pay off the national debt however the usa is owed trillions by other countries The G7 plus russia don't owe the usa much The debt she(america)is owed is mainly by third world countries who cannot repay this debt Once america has to go to  the same currency deals as her partners it'll be a different ball game
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The U.S. paid one half trillion on the debt in 2006.  Wouldn't it have been nice if we could have used that money on something important?
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I believe whoever told you that is confusing Japan and China. The total US debt held by foreign countries is $1.886 trillion, of which Japan held $1.2 trillion as of March 2005 and China a mere $223.5 billion at the same time.
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well, there are two kinds of debt. Domestic and international. So yeah, come to think of it who does the US owe money to? Maybe they haven't been paying contractors or national lending organizations, or maybe they owe the IMF or World Bank some money.
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Hey, it may be a good thing if there is another country out there that would support us once the USA is a third world nation due to the massive amount of people allowed or not allowed to migrate. After all we've supported everyone else for a very long time while our own citizens suffer from hunger and neglect so I suppose turn around would be fair. I'd like to sit on my a_s and have the 'good' working people of some far off land give me shelter, food and free medical care.