WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan forced the entry of the United States into the war. Roosevelt then recognized the strategic advantage of also supplying the Soviet Union with arms under lend-lease in order to draw Hitler’s resources away from Western Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945.

Detailed explanation-4: -lend-lease, system by which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials.

Detailed explanation-5: -It has been asserted that Great Britain was putting her own labels on goods coming from the United States and was sending them to other countries. Complaints have also been heard that lend-lease materials were used by the British to manufacture goods later sold abroad-or sometimes sold in the United States.