The general quality of the US Navy was only handicapped by the great use of dreadnoughts and pre-dreadnoughts, to the detriment of modern cruisers which were sorely lacking. This vision of naval power has been largely carried out by President Theodore Roosevelt, while the influence of Alfred Thayer Mahan in the Admiralty, linking the destiny of the United states to its Navy, brought a vision to fuel an ambitious naval program. When the war ended in November 1918, it had added to an already impressive navy, many new ships.

Lexington class battlecruisers- Original design, 1916 configuration. USA's enormous industrial power, already mobilized for the production of materials used in Europe by warring parties, was also used for mass production of cargo ships, destroyers and patrol vessels, many of which were still operational by 1941. Its entry into the war resulted in part of an attack of a German submersible: The torpedoing of the Lusitania. US Navy in ww2 Towards a global naval superpower: The US Navy moved from an insignificant 'old navy' in 1885 to a recognized naval power in 1898, then to a first-class naval power in 1917, assuming with the Royal Navy the safeguarding of sea routes in ww1.

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