HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Lend-Lease Act
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Trade Embargo
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Atlantic Charter
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Neutrality Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Citation: Lend Lease Bill, dated January 10, 1941.
Detailed explanation-2: -On this date, the House of Representatives voted to give final approval to the Lend-Lease Act (H.R. 1776)-authorizing the President to sell, lease, or lend military hardware to any country he designated as vital to American national security.
Detailed explanation-3: -Despite this opposition, Roosevelt and his Congressional supporters prevailed, and on March 8, 1941, HR 1776, the Lend-Lease Act (subtitled “An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States”), passed through a final vote in the Senate. On March 11 the president signed it into law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S Congress originally approved the Lend-Lease Act (H.R. 1776) in 1941, giving the president the authority to sell, lend, or lease military equipment to any nation deemed vital to national security.
Detailed explanation-5: -why did congress pass the lend-lease act and amend the neutrality acts in 1941? to allow the U.S. to lend military equipment and supplies to any nation the president said was vital to the defense of the U.S.