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Page 1: Lend Lease Act By: Justin Robinson. The 4/5 W’s ●WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations ●WHAT? Military aid ●WHEN? March, 1941 ●WHERE? World

Lend Lease ActBy: Justin Robinson

Page 2: Lend Lease Act By: Justin Robinson. The 4/5 W’s ●WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations ●WHAT? Military aid ●WHEN? March, 1941 ●WHERE? World
Page 3: Lend Lease Act By: Justin Robinson. The 4/5 W’s ●WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations ●WHAT? Military aid ●WHEN? March, 1941 ●WHERE? World

The 4/5 W’s

● WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations● WHAT? Military aid● WHEN? March, 1941● WHERE? World

Page 4: Lend Lease Act By: Justin Robinson. The 4/5 W’s ●WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations ●WHAT? Military aid ●WHEN? March, 1941 ●WHERE? World

MORE FACTS

● 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

Page 5: Lend Lease Act By: Justin Robinson. The 4/5 W’s ●WHO? The USA, FDR, Foreign nations ●WHAT? Military aid ●WHEN? March, 1941 ●WHERE? World