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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

History of the Lend-Lease Program


























Background information.

Churchill and FDR.

$11 billion aid to the Soviet Union.

"Our national policy is not directed toward war" Fireside Chat - FDR (1940).

Lend-Lease Shipments.

Transcript of Lend-Lease Act (1941).

Speech on Neutrality - Charles Lindbergh (1941).

"Opponents of War Preparedness" J. Edgar Hoover (1940).

House voted 265-165 to approve the Act.
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