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,... 30 KB (2,498 words) - 05:43, 28 March 2024 |
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... 75 KB (10,957 words) - 07:41, 23 March 2024 |
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... 40 KB (4,712 words) - 21:04, 3 March 2024 |
Ballantrae, formerly USS Whittier, one of the Town-class destroyers from the destroyers-for-bases deal. On her first mission, convoy escort duty, Ballantrae... 7 KB (716 words) - 07:35, 6 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,276 words) - 06:52, 26 March 2024 |
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... 7 KB (790 words) - 07:29, 28 March 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,369 words) - 17:59, 19 September 2023 |
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... 5 KB (545 words) - 00:02, 15 March 2024 |
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... 50 KB (5,873 words) - 08:48, 17 April 2024 |
and subsequently "moth-balled". Fifty were loaned, under the Destroyers-for-bases deal to the United Kingdom when convoy escorts were desperately needed... 1 KB (108 words) - 14:48, 22 August 2023 |
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... 26 KB (2,149 words) - 17:41, 2 April 2024 |
contingency military enforcement operation plan for war on the Soviet Union to obtain "square deal for Poland" (Operation Unthinkable), which resulted... 42 KB (4,670 words) - 05:25, 25 February 2024 |
Roosevelt in centre of Square Gardens (1066737)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2023. "Franklin Roosevelt". Glasgow museums.... 3 KB (66 words) - 03:17, 25 March 2024 |
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... 32 KB (3,169 words) - 03:43, 18 April 2024 |
Four Freedoms (section Justification for war) 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... 31 KB (3,596 words) - 18:28, 3 April 2024 |
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... 39 KB (5,444 words) - 16:06, 17 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (1,959 words) - 18:34, 25 January 2024 |
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";... 16 KB (1,773 words) - 10:28, 30 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (920 words) - 00:19, 6 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,260 words) - 16:50, 13 March 2024 |