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Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941),[1] was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, Republic of China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. The aid was given free of charge on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of the United States. The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended on September 20, 1945. A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $719 billion in 2021) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[2] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies. Roosevelt's top foreign policy advisor Harry Hopkins had effecti

Lend-Lease - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WWII program to provide U.S. allies with free armaments This article is about the World War II program. For the Australian company, see Lendlease . For the Act of Congress in 2022, see Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 . Lend-Lease Act Other short titles An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States Long title An Act further to promote the defense of the United States, and for other purposes. Nicknames Lend-Lease Enacted by the 77th United States Congress Effective March 11, 1941 Citations Public l

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