HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Western Europe recovered from the damage caused by World War I
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the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact
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Japan declared war against the United States
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the United States provided critical aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -By the end of June 1944 the United States had sent to the Soviets under lend-lease more than 11, 000 planes; over 6, 000 tanks and tank destroyers; and 300, 000 trucks and other military vehicles.
Detailed explanation-4: -The lend-lease program provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States. The plan thus gave Roosevelt the power to lend arms to Britain with the understanding that, after the war, America would be paid back in kind.
Detailed explanation-5: -The principal recipients of aid were the British Commonwealth countries (about 63 percent) and the Soviet Union (about 22 percent), though by the end of the war more than 40 countries had received lend-lease help. Much of the aid, valued at $49.1 billion, amounted to outright gifts.