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Identifier	Thesis 1896
Author	Brandi, Anthony P. (Anthony Peter), 1950-
Title	Lend-lease : FDR's most unheralded achievement and Connecticut's unprecedented response to it
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Long before the United States entered World War II after it was attacked at Pearl Harbor, there were other major battles taking place all over Eastern and Western Europe. All were desperate; all were deadly. The German war machine overran sovereign European countries from Poland in the east to France in the west until, finally, only England remained between Hitler's Third Reich and the United States. If England fell, the United States would be living, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "at the point of a loaded gun." It was during this time that Roosevelt altered the course of the war by fashioning the Lend-Lease Bill, one of the most ingenious enactments in American history. The Lend-Lease Act, passed (1941) by the U.S. Congress, gave the President power to sell, transfer, lend, or lease war materials including food, machinery, and services, to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in World War II. The President was to set the terms for aid; repayment was to be 'in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory.' What made the Lend-Lease Act so astounding was that the United States had an exacting Neutrality Act in force at the time, which strictly forbid Americans from selling or transporting arms or munitions to the belligerents. In addition, financial aid was denied to the Allies under the provisions of the Johnson Debt-Default Act of 1934, which prohibited aid to any country that had defaulted on their World War I debts. By 1941 every European nation, save Finland, came under the umbrella of the Johnson Debt-Default Act. FDR ingeniously created a way to circumvent both of these acts and supply embattled England and the Allies with military aid throughout the war.
Subject	Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Warshauer, Matthew, 1965-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733913
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