Defense Materials Already on Way To Aid of Britain

Learn More about this Historical Event: Congress Passes Lend-Lease Act

• Lend-Lease (Encyclopedia Article)
• FDR Proclaims America “Arsenal of Democracy,” December 29, 1940 (Historical Film Footage)
• Lend-Lease Act (1941) (National Archives and Records Administration, Our Documents)
• The Lend-Lease Program, 1941–1945 (FDR Presidential Library & Museum)
• Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World War II (Office of the Historian, US Department of State)

Bibliography

Warren F. Kimball. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Second World War. New York William Morrow and Co., 1997.

The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939–1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969.

Stettinius, Edward R. Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory. New York: Macmillan, 1944.