HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Good Neighbor Policy
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Lend-Lease Program
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Signing the Treaty of Versailles
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None of the above, since the U.S. stayed in isolation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most importantly, passage of the Lend-Lease Act enabled a struggling Great Britain to continue fighting against Germany virtually on its own until the United States entered World War II late in 1941.
Detailed explanation-2: -US – President Roosevelt started the Lend Lease programme.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Rather, Lend-Lease was designed to serve America’s interest in defeating Nazi Germany without entering the war until the American military and public was prepared to fight.
Detailed explanation-5: -With pressure from Roosevelt, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941, authorizing the president to lend war supplies to nations whose defense he deemed vital to American security. Roosevelt quietly provided limited military support as well.