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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941). House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1. Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), [1] [2] was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the ...
In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union ... The speech coincided with the introduction of the Lend-Lease Act, ...
President Franklin Roosevelt signing the Lend-Lease Act, March 11, 1941. President Roosevelt delivering the "Infamy Speech" to Congress, requesting a declaration of war, December 8, 1941. Behind him are Vice President Henry Wallace (left) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Senator Pepper worked diligently to pass the landmark "lend-lease" legislation and sponsored the Lend-Lease Act of 1941.
This was followed by the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941, which allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to nations Roosevelt wanted to support: Britain, France, and China. [ 20 ]
The main American role in the war, beyond the military mission itself, was financing the war and providing large quantities of munitions and civilian goods. Lend-Lease, as passed by Congress in 1941, was a declaration of economic warfare, and that economic warfare continued after the attack on Pearl Harbor. [86]
The second phase was the Lend-Lease Act of early 1941. This act allowed the President "to lend, lease, sell, or barter arms, ammunition, food, or any 'defense article' or any 'defense information' to 'the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.'" [44] American public opinion ...
Banff-class sloops, similarly transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941; Tizard Mission; Lend-Lease, a successor agreement loosely modelled on the Destroyers for Bases Agreement; Northeast Air Command for airfields in Newfoundland and Labrador; Town-class destroyer, some of which were transferred to Soviet Navy