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After Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), when it became a full belligerent, the United States and fourteen of its allies signed master lend-lease agreements providing for reciprocal aid and the pooling of human and material resources directed and coordinated toward the common goal. From that date forward the United States furnished nearly every kind of material and service to its allies, and received in return much the same kind of aid. Mindful of the World War I debt fiasco, as a result of American loans to its allies and the hard feelings that followed, the negotiators drafted Article VII of the master lend-lease agreements to provide that "the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between two countries but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic matters."  The British provided numerous bases and supplies for American forces, and furthermore gave the Americans the Rolls Royce Merlin engine for the [[P-51 Mustang]] fighter, the blueprints for the [[proximity fuze]], and vital information on the [[atomic bomb]].   

After Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), when it became a full belligerent, the United States and fourteen of its allies signed master lend-lease agreements providing for reciprocal aid and the pooling of human and material resources directed and coordinated toward the common goal. From that date forward the United States furnished nearly every kind of material and service to its allies, and received in return much the same kind of aid. Mindful of the World War I debt fiasco, as a result of American loans to its allies and the hard feelings that followed, the negotiators drafted Article VII of the master lend-lease agreements to provide that "the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between two countries but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic matters."  The British provided numerous bases and supplies for American forces, and furthermore gave the Americans the Rolls Royce Merlin engine for the [[P-51 Mustang]] fighter, the blueprints for the [[proximity fuze]], and vital information on the [[atomic bomb]].   

==Commonwealth==

==Commonwealth==

Canada, Australia and New Zealand had their own lend-lease programs to help the British. Australia and New Zealand imposed rationing on their own people to ship food to Britain.  

[[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]] had their own lend-lease programs to help the British. Australia and New Zealand imposed rationing on their own people to ship food to Britain.  

===USSR===

===USSR===

The [[Soviet Union]], locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war materials; they were delivered via Arctic seaports of Archangel and Murmansk, over land across Persia (Iran), and via Vladivostok. While Soviets historians downplayed the importance of the aid, recent scholarship has discovered how essential it was to the Soviet war effort.

The [[Soviet Union]], locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] greatly benefited from the US war materials; they were delivered via Arctic seaports of [[Archangel]] and [[Murmansk]], over land across Persia ([[Iran]]), and via [[Vladivostok]]. While Soviets historians downplayed the importance of the aid, recent scholarship has discovered how essential it was to the Soviet war effort.

===China===

===China===

Shortly before [[Pearl Harbor]], Hopkins took on President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s adviser [[Lauchlin Currie]] as deputy for Lend-Lease aid to the  Chinese [[KMT]]. The hope was that Lend-Lease aid would enable the Chinese to tie down large Japanese armies. Some 5000 Studebaker 2.5 ton trucks carried supplies along the [[Burma Road]] into China from India.

Shortly before [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]], Hopkins took on President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s adviser [[Lauchlin Currie]] as deputy for Lend-Lease aid to the  Chinese [[KMT]]. The hope was that Lend-Lease aid would enable the Chinese to tie down large Japanese armies. Some 5000 Studebaker 2.5 ton trucks carried supplies along the [[Burma Road]] into China from India.

==Termination==

==Termination==