Lend-Lease facts for kids

Lend-Lease was a program of the United States government put into place right before World War II. The United States was still trying to be neutral in the War, but wanted to give supplies to the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union). The U.S. gave the Allies several billion dollars of weapons. The Allies gave the United States rights to air and naval bases around the world, as well as billions in future monies. This money was not fully given until 2006.

Images for kids

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  President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941).

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  House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1

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  Food aid from the United States: British pupils wave for the camera as they receive plates of bacon and eggs.

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  The Red Army in Bucharest near Boulevard of Carol I. with British-supplied Universal Carrier

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  A Valentine tank destined for the Soviet Union leaves the factory in Britain.

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  British Mk III 'Valentine' destroyed in the Soviet Union, January 1944

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  Warsaw 1945: Willys jeep used by the Polish First Army as part of U.S. Lend-Lease program

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  The Lend-Lease Memorial in Fairbanks, Alaska commemorates the shipment of U.S. aircraft to the Soviet Union along the Northwest Staging Route.

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  BM-13N Katyusha on a Lend-Lease Studebaker US6 truck, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow

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In Spanish: Ley de Préstamo y Arriendo para niños