Lend-Lease is a program thanks to which the United States maximally simplified and accelerated the procedure for providing allies with weapons, food, oil and other necessary goods to fight Nazi Germany. This law was adopted in March 1941, and it was valid until September 1945. Received this assistance, in particular, Great Britain, the countries of the British Commonwealth, France (Resistance Movement), China, the USSR. The package of this assistance included warships, aircraft, heavy weapons.

The situation during the Second World War can be compared with the current situation in Ukraine.

“They [the British and other US allies] are asking us for military equipment, aircraft, tanks, guns, cargo ships that will allow them to fight for their freedom and our safety,” US President Franklin Delano explained to the American people the need to adopt a Lend-Lease policy..

During the Lend-Lease, US allies received weapons worth $ 50 billion at the rate of 1941 (equivalent to $ 690 billion in 2020).

This not only helped the Allies in defeating the Nazis, but also became a huge boost to the American economy, which was building tanks, artillery, warships and merchant ships at a frantic pace so that there would be something to destroy the enemy on the European continent.. And it's not just about the military industry.. American farmers and oil workers also received an impulse, supplying food and fuel, supporting Britain and the allies throughout the struggle..

Under the terms of the Lend-Lease program, the Allies had the right to use equipment until it was destroyed by the enemy, or until the moment of victory and its return to the United States.. True, only a small part of the sent weapons returned to the United States.

Lend-lease agreements with European countries also provided for the repayment of supplies not only in money (in the form of long-term US loans) or the return of goods, but also "

The lend-lease program, created during World War II, is considered a watershed in the conflict because it allowed the US to quickly resupply allies without cumbersome procedural barriers..

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