Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease was a program of the United States government put into place right before World War II. The United States was still trying to be neutral in the War, but wanted to give supplies to the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union). The U.S. gave the Allies several billion dollars of weapons. The Allies gave the United States rights to air and naval bases around the world, as well as billions in future monies. This money was not fully given until 2006.
Lend-Lease Media
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
Ratio of gross domestic product between Allied and Axis powers, 1938–1945. See Military production during World War II.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial features a quotation from FDR's Lend-Lease speech of March 15, 1941, about the recently passed Lend-Lease Act and the urgent need to support freedom and democracy.
Women at the Kroger grocery and baking company in Cincinnati prepare canned pork for shipment to the USSR, June 1943
map shows US Lend Lease shipments to USSR in WW2 by route
The Red Army in Bucharest near Boulevard of Carol I. with British-supplied Universal Carrier
A Valentine tank destined for the Soviet Union leaves a factory in Britain
Poster advertising British aid to the Soviet war effort
