lend lease act by: justin robinson. the 4/5 w’s ●who? the usa, fdr, foreign nations ●what?...
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Lend Lease ActBy: Justin Robinson
The 4/5 W’s
● WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations● WHAT? Military aid● WHEN? March, 1941● WHERE? World
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● The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
● By allowing the president to transfer war matériel to a beleaguered Britain–and without payment as required by the Neutrality Act of 1939–the act enabled the British to keep fighting until events led America into the conflict
● It also skirted the thorny problems of war debts that had followed World War I
● Brought U.S closer into the war than it was● Proposed in 1940 and passed on March 11 1941
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