Lend-Lease Timeline of Events

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U.S...

Timeline of Events

1941

1.10.1941

Lend-Lease is introduced in the U.S. Congress.

3.11.1941

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.

10.30.1941

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

11.24.1941

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

1942

6.11.1942

World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.