The Lend-Lease Act was a congressional act that allowed the [[President]] to send arms and other war supplies to any country deemed necessary to the defense of the [[United States]]. President Roosevelt persuaded [[Congress]] to pass this act in 1941. The Soviet Union, locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war materiel delivered to the USSR Arctic seaport of Archangel. The Lend-Lease program was ended in 1945. | The Lend-Lease Act was a congressional act that allowed the [[President]] to send arms and other war supplies to any country deemed necessary to the defense of the [[United States]]. President Roosevelt persuaded [[Congress]] to pass this act in 1941. The Soviet Union, locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war materiel delivered to the USSR Arctic seaport of Archangel. The Lend-Lease program was ended in 1945. |