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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 [[Franklin D. Roosevelt |Roosevelt]] persuaded [[Congress]] to pass this act in 1941.  Presidential confidant [[Harry Hopkins]] was  appointed to administer the program.  The [[Soviet Union]], locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war material delivered to the USSR Arctic seaport of Archangel.  

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 [[Franklin D. Roosevelt |Roosevelt]] persuaded [[Congress]] to pass this act in 1941.  Presidential confidant [[Harry Hopkins]] was  appointed to administer the program.  The [[Soviet Union]], locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war material delivered to the USSR Arctic seaport of Archangel.  

Shortly before [[Pearl Harbor]], Hopkins took on FDR adviser [[Lauchlin Currie]] as deputy for Lend-Lease aid to the  Chinese [[Kuomintang]] who were fighting two wars simultaneously--one against the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japanese who had invaded Manchuria]], and a another against the Soviet [[Comintern]] [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist]]s lead by [[Mao Zedong]].  Currie was in daily consultation at this time with one of the Hiss brothers and [[Harry Dexter White]].  Currie, White, [[Alger Hiss]] and [[Donald Hiss]] were all agents of the Soviet Union, carrying out Comintern directives to [[subversion (political)|subvert]] American [[foreign policy]] and support for the Chinese Nationalist government of [[Jiang Jieshi|Chiang Kai-shek]].

Shortly before [[Pearl Harbor]], Hopkins took on President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s adviser [[Lauchlin Currie]] as deputy for Lend-Lease aid to the  Chinese [[Kuomintang]] who were fighting two wars simultaneously--one against the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japanese who had invaded Manchuria]], and a another against the Soviet [[Comintern]] [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist]]s lead by [[Mao Zedong]].  Currie was in daily consultation at this time with one of the Hiss brothers and [[Harry Dexter White]].  Currie, White, [[Alger Hiss]] and [[Donald Hiss]] were all agents of the Soviet Union, carrying out Comintern directives to [[subversion (political)|subvert]] American [[foreign policy]] and support for the Chinese Nationalist government of [[Jiang Jieshi|Chiang Kai-shek]].

The Lend-Lease program was ended in 1945.

The Lend-Lease program was ended in 1945.