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Lend Lease Act and Cash
Carry
A Lease you can carry and
a Lend you can Cash
By: Amanda Lloyd
Overview
• Passed in March 1941
• Made it a lot easier for the united
states to provide military aid to
Great Britain and other places at
war against Hitler
• FDR hoped this would help keep
war away from the U.S. shores
Over view (cont)
• U.S. didn’t enter world war II un till
after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor in December of 1941 (but
that is another story)
video
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Who?...
• Britain needed aid but didn’t have
the money to got it from the
American’s
WHAT!?
• The lend lease act authorized FDR
to sell, transfer, title to, exchange,
lease, lend, or in other wise dispose
of, to any article. When ever it was
needed in the interest of the
defense of the United States.
WHEN?!
• By 1945 THE U.S had sent over $40
billion of lend-lease act to the allies
and soviet union.
HOW?
• Extending help was both being a
good neighbor and acting to keep
the peace
Significant to the war
• It was a way the allies and soviet
union got weapons and food that
they needed but had to us cash. it
was important to the war because
we were making money but not going
to war.
QUIZ!!!!!
• What was the lend lease act?
• True or false: the lend lease act
helped the U.S.
• True or false: FDR felt this
would help keep the U.S safe
from war.
Work cited
• EMMA J. COPANSLEY-WERNER, RANDY ROBERTS,
PETER B. LEVY, ALAN TAYLOR UNITED STATES
HISTORY,BOSTON MASSACHUSETS UPPERS
SANDDLER RIVER, NEW JERSEY 2008
• WORLD WAR II PRIMARY SOURCES. BARBARA C.
SLOVEY COPYRIGHT 2000 DETROIT, SAN
FRANSCO, LONDON BOSTON, WOOD BRIDGE,CT
• WORLD WAR II PRIMARY SOURCES. BARBARA C.
SLOVEY COPYRIGHT 2000 DETROIT, SAN
FRANSCO, LONDON BOSTON, WOOD BRIDGE,CT