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    The destroyers-for-bases deal was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2, 1940, according to which 50 Caldwell,...
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    way for the Destroyers for Bases deal of 2 September 1940 under which the United States supplied destroyers in exchange for leases on British bases in...
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  • fervently opposed measures for the British advanced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt such as the destroyers-for-bases deal and the Lend-Lease bill, but...
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  • Ballantrae, formerly USS Whittier, one of the Town-class destroyers from the destroyers-for-bases deal. On her first mission, convoy escort duty, Ballantrae...
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    Argentia, which had recently been leased from Britain as part of the Destroyers-for-bases deal. The US did not enter the war as a combatant until the attack...
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    helping to lay the groundwork for post-war relief programs. The final part of the speech was about the destroyers-for-bases deal, in which Britain gave the...
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    grant in Newfoundland for what became the Ernest Harmon Air Force Base. These grants were an extension of the Destroyers-for-bases deal agreement, but not...
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  • September 1940 with the Destroyers-for-bases deal, an agreement to transfer 50 US Navy destroyers to the Royal Navy in exchange for land rights on British...
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  • The Second New Deal is a term used by historians to characterize the second stage, 1935–36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    The Wickes-class destroyers were a class of 111 destroyers built by the United States Navy in 1917–19. Together with the six preceding Caldwell-class...
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    Security Administration (SSA), provided support for farmers, the unemployed, youth, and the elderly. The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on...
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  • The military support given by the Americans was through the Destroyers-for-bases deal in which the United States provide the United Kingdom "all possible...
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    the Permanent Joint Board on Defence and helped negotiate the destroyers-for-bases deal. In late 1940, Murray was placed in command of a fleet of five...
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    and subsequently "moth-balled". Fifty were loaned, under the Destroyers-for-bases deal to the United Kingdom when convoy escorts were desperately needed...
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  • chiefly used by destroyers, entered service in 1914. Apart from some older British ships, it was used with the old US (destroyers-for-bases deal) Town-class...
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    arrangements for Rutherfurd to attend and witness his swearing-in. When her husband later suffered a stroke, she contacted Roosevelt to arrange for him to be...
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    Retrieved February 18, 2016. Swain, Martha H. (2009). Pat Harrison: the New Deal years. University Press of Mississippi. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-60473-263-4. Courtaway...
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    contingency military enforcement operation plan for war on the Soviet Union to obtain "square deal for Poland" (Operation Unthinkable), which resulted...
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    international conference. In most cases, the only avenue open to self-determination for colonial or national ethnic minority populations was to achieve international...
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    Roosevelt in centre of Square Gardens (1066737)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2023. "Franklin Roosevelt". Glasgow museums....
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    Hansen, pp. 399–401 Hansen, p. 90 Muscio, Giulana (1997). Hollywood's New Deal. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-56639-495-6...
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    elements. Critics argued that the Four Freedoms were simply a charter for Roosevelt's New Deal, social reforms that had already created sharp divisions within...
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    employed mathematicians who were responsible for constructing and maintaining multilevel models of resources needed for the war effort. Their models included...
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    aid to the United Kingdom, given he had already approved the destroyers-for-bases deal one month before the 1940 election. The cash-and-carry policy...
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    intelligence relating to Japanese and Siberian ports and about air bases in the Maritime Provinces for up to 1,000 heavy bombers. On 2 February, Stalin told the...
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    on the Aleutian Islands while on tour there and had sent a U.S. Navy destroyer to retrieve him at an exorbitant cost to the taxpayers: These Republican...
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    border with Connecticut on the east. To ensure equal access to the river for all partners, the land along its shore was divided into nine "Water Lots";...
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    install elevators for her to use in both Springwood and their New York home. In August 1876, the couple traveled on James' yacht for a cruise to Long Island...
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    Kong. She gave birth to Franklin in 1882, and was a devoted mother to him for the remainder of her life, including home-schooling and living close by in...
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    Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. The main discussions were between US President...
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