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[[Image:Leninleaseroutes.gif|thumb|500px|right|Lend-lease routes]]
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.