Lend-Lease
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Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union,
President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941).
House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1
British pupils wave for the camera as they receive plates of American bacon and eggs from Lend-Lease
Water-cooled machine guns, just arrived from the USA under lend-lease, are checked at an ordnance depot in England c. 1941
Neutrality Acts of the 1930s
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The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts passed by the US Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth
Lend-Lease
…billion in supplies and services (equivalent to $61 billion in 2020). Lend-Lease ended the United States' neutrality which had been enshrined in the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s. It was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy and toward open support for the Allies. Lend-Lease's precise significance to Allied victory…
Postcard sent to a Congressman opposing the Neutrality Act of 1939