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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 tons were used to transport supplies along the [[Burma Road]] into China from India.
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.
==Termination==
==Termination==
As a war measure, Lend-Lease was terminated by President [[Harry S. Truman]] in September 1945. Termination was hasty and unexpected and severely upset the Soviet Union and Britain; however the U.S. had also started up an entirely separate program of postwar relief and loans. Thus the U.S. loaned France $500 million in 1945 and Britain $3.75 billion at 2% interest, three years before the [[Marshall Plan]] aid started. Truman ignored Stalin's request for a $6 billion loan.
As a war measure, Lend-Lease was terminated by President [[Harry S. Truman]] in September 1945. Termination was hasty and unexpected and severely upset the Soviet Union and Britain; however the U.S. had also started up an entirely separate program of postwar relief and loans. Thus the U.S. loaned France $500 million in 1945 and Britain $3.75 billion at 2% interest, three years before the [[Marshall Plan]] aid started. Truman ignored Stalin's request for a $6 billion loan.