Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease was a program of the United States government put into place in March 1941, during World War II. The United States was trying to seem 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. Most of the merchandise was given free, but the Allies still owed billions which were fully paid in 2006.
Lend-Lease Media
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941).
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House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1
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British pupils wave for the camera as they receive plates of American bacon and eggs from Lend-Lease
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Ratio of gross domestic product between Allied and Axis powers, 1938–1945
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Moscow Mission
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Women at the Kroger grocery and baking company in Cincinnati prepare canned pork for shipment to the USSR, June 1943
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map shows US Lend Lease shipments to USSR in WW2 by route
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Poster advertising British aid to the Soviet war effort
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Warsaw 1945: Willys jeep used by the Polish First Army as part of U.S. Lend-Lease program
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The Lend-Lease Memorial in Fairbanks, Alaska, commemorates the shipment of U.S. aircraft to the Soviet Union along the Northwest Staging Route
