He died of a stroke in 1959 . His 1946 book " Arsenal of Democracy " is one of the major works on the U . S . industrial mobilization effort during World War II.
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"Arsenal of Democracy " was commissioned by the Orkest de Volharding, an ensemble founded by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, whose highly dissonant variety of Minimalism has influenced Ms . Wolfe's esthetic.
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Convinced that America could serve as " the great arsenal of democracy ", he persuaded the President to launch a massive arms production program, both as an economic stimulus and to supply the Allies with military resources.
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Willkie also accused Roosevelt of leaving the nation unprepared for war, but Roosevelt's military buildup and transformation of the nation into the " arsenal of democracy " removed the " unpreparedness " charge as a major issue.
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The speech coincided with the introduction of the Lend-Lease Bill, which promoted Roosevelt's plan to become the " arsenal of democracy " and support the Allies ( mainly the British ) with much-needed supplies.
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On the third anniversary of the Plan President Roosevelt enthused that the BCATP had transformed Canada into the " aerodrome of democracy ", a play on his earlier description of the United States as " the Arsenal of Democracy ."
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Roosevelt's call for America to be the Arsenal of Democracy led to remarkable growth in munition-related industries, such as airplane engines, radio, radar, proximity fuzes, rifles, and a thousand other products.
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In December 1940 Roosevelt, having won an historic third term as president declared that the U . S . would become the " Arsenal of Democracy ", providing the weapons Britain and her Commonwealth needed without entering the war herself.
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In December 1940 he accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out negotiations as useless, calling for the US to become an " arsenal of democracy " and promoted the passage of Lend-Lease aid to support the British war effort.
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Most of what the US did was " behind the lines " in Europe, especially early in the war, in providing weapons, money, equipment, etc ., to the Allies, as in the phrase the Arsenal of Democracy.
