Act to Promote the Defense of the United States

The Lend-Lease Act of 1941. Image courtesy of Library of Congress Less than one year after congressional passage of the Lend-Lease Act to aid Great Britain and other countries fighting the Axis Powers, the United States declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy in December 1941.

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President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a lend–lease system that distributed military aid to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” The President also determined the appropriate repayment.

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