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1/10 Lend-lease

When: 1941

Who：President Franklin D. Roosevelt

What：President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the Lend-Lease program to Congress.

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Why significant：The Lend-Lease program was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II. After the defeat of France during June 1940, the British Commonwealth and Empire were the only forces engaged in war against Germany and Italy. As the British began becoming short of money, arms, and other supplies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill pressed President Franklin D. Roosevelt for help. Sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by public opinion to stay out of another bloody world war and the Neutrality Acts, which forbade arms sales on credit or the loaning of money to belligerent nations, Roosevelt devised the Lend-Lease program as a means to aid Great Britain. The idea was that the better Britain was better able to defend itself, the more secure the U.S. was.

The program was made available to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the U.S. By the end of the war the U.S. had given more than $50 billion in armaments, materials, oil and financial support to Britain, the U.S.S.R. and 37 other countries.

The Lend-Lease program effectively ended the U.S.'s pretense of neutrality and was a decisive change from non-interventionist policy, which had dominated U.S. foreign relations since 1931. It also laid a foundation for the Marshall Plan, which provided aid to European nations to help rebuild their economies after two devastating world wars.

Tags：WW II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lend-Lease program, Marshall Plan, Neutrality Acts of 1930s

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