After months of fighting in the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill asked for the United States assistance, and the U.S. agreed to offer supplies.

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After months of fighting in the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill asked for the United States’ assistance, and the U.S. agreed to offer supplies.

A	True
B	False
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The Lend-Lease Act, approved by Congress in March 1941, had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation’s official position of neutrality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy-bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States."

Detailed explanation-4: -The purpose of this policy was to allow the Allied nations at war with Germany to purchase war materials while maintaining a semblance of neutrality for the United States.

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