Event

Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union

U.S. government aid to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program, first shipped by the end of October 1941.

5 links, 5 backed by primary records

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Soviet Union recipient Primary record 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt blocked attempts in Congress to exclude the Soviet Union Primary record 1
Joseph Stalin met Roosevelt’s envoy Harry Hopkins in Moscow Primary record 1
United States government sent the aid under the Lend-Lease Act Primary record 1 2
United States government had imposed a “moral embargo” on some exports to the Soviets, lifted in January 1941, while seeing Nazi Germany as the greater threat Primary record 1

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U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941-1945 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
By the end of October, the first Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union was on its way.
Roosevelt blocked attempts to exclude the Soviet Union from receiving U.S. assistance.
after two one-on-one meetings with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin
to impose a “moral embargo” on the export of certain products to the Soviets
Roosevelt never lost sight of the fact that Nazi Germany, not the Soviet Union, posed the greatest threat to world peace.
Lend-Lease Act (1941), Milestone Documents, U.S. National Archives, 11 Mar 1941. Primary record
a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

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