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    Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 77–11...
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    The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 was an act of the United States Congress that facilitates the supply of materiel to the Ukrainian...
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  • Germany. The Acts were largely repealed in 1941, in the face of the Lend-Lease Act. The Nye Committee hearings between 1934 and 1936 and several best-selling...
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    declared war on the United States. The US increased aid to China: the Lend-Lease act gave China a total of $1.6 billion (equivalent to $20 billion in 2023)...
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    Britain, the Soviet Union, and China with war materiel through the Lend-Lease Act signed into law on 11 March 1941, and deployed the US military to replace...
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    Britain was no longer able to finance cash payments and Lend-Lease was introduced. The Lend Lease Act provided aid for free on the basis that such help was...
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    Russian Famine Relief Act of 1921. Levels of United States aid increased greatly during World War II, mainly on account of the Lend-lease program. United States...
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    British under the Lend-Lease Act the United States Army Air Forces designation A-30 was allocated. With the passing of the Lend Lease Act two further batches...
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    the title of "Locust" and 260 were shipped to Great Britain under the Lend-Lease Act. Seventeen Locusts were received by the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance...
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    pushing for passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which was beneficial to the credit card industry and supported by MBNA during...
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    vote defeated a Taft amendment to the Lend-Lease Act which would have prevented postwar delivery of lend-lease goods contracted for during the war." Robert...
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    through the Lend Lease Act. At the end of the war Britain Lend Lease was ended but Britain needed to continue to make payments for Lend Lease and import...
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    passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House, ending the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis. The act, with support of both parties, imposed...
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    winning America's support for the British war effort, especially the Lend-Lease Act, which passed Congress after his death. Kerr was born in London as the...
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    liberty nor safety.'" The speech coincided with the introduction of the Lend-Lease Act, which promoted Roosevelt's plan to become the "arsenal of democracy"...
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    Pacific islands. As a consequence of World War II rationing and the Lend-Lease Act, Spam was sold in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret...
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    Lakes Development Act, 1969" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 20 November 1969. pp. 228 & 234. Retrieved 26 July 2019. "Lend Lease buys Delfin". Archived...
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    War II, the Soviets received 586 DUKW-353 amphibious trucks under the Lend-Lease Act. The design was regarded as successful, so it was decided to build a...
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    which landing craft (LCVPs) could be launched.[citation needed] The Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the United States in March 1941, enabling the...
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    Allies during the Second World War, under the terms of Lend-Lease. This chart shows Lend-Lease shipments to major recipients through 1 September 1945;...
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    Canada's Gift and Mutual Aid program to the Allies, comparable to the U.S. Lend-Lease Act. During the war, CMP trucks saw service around the world in the North...
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    the title of 'Locust' and 260 were shipped to Great Britain under the Lend-Lease Act. Seventeen Locusts were received by the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance...
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    the 1941 Lend Lease Act. Bates voted in favor of arming merchant ships. Bates made good on his campaign promises and voted to increase lend-lease funding...
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    pro-British campaign rhetoric, Rivers voted in favor of the first Lend Lease Act in 1941 to lend material military aid to the British Army and Royal Navy, as...
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  • USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn. January 10 – The Lend-Lease Act is introduced into the United States Congress. January 11 – WWII: The...
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    replaced by the Mark 13 torpedo on most of these in mid-1943. Under the Lend-Lease Act, about 600 Mark 8 torpedoes were issued to the United Kingdom for use...
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    Germany and Japan by sending airplanes and supplies authorized by the Lend-lease act through Alaska and into the Soviet Far East. The name was later changed...
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    remained in Britain, although twenty were sent to the USSR as part of Lend-Lease. In early 1941, the Royal Armoured Corps formed three squadrons for use...
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    1941, much of the Neutrality Acts had largely been repealed by the Lend-Lease Act, allowing Roosevelt more freedom to pursue further aid for Britain without...
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    Britain was provided while the U.S. was officially neutral via the Lend-Lease Act starting in 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister...
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