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GCSE History · key term
The American programme that supplied Allied countries, including the USSR, with equipment, food and other wartime assistance.
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Paper 1
Revise: Impact of the Second World WarDomestic production was supplemented by Lend-Lease assistance. American and other overseas supplies included vehicles, aircraft, tanks and food. Imported vehicles were especially valuable for transporting soldiers and supplies.
The American policy introduced in March 1941 that provided countries such as Britain with weapons and other wartime supplies without immediate payment.
Distinguish Cash and Carry, which involved purchases, from Lend Lease, which supplied wartime aid without immediate payment.
Keep chronology clear: Lend Lease and Executive Order 8802 began in 1941, before the USA entered the war in December; the War Production Board followed in January 1942.
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