- Headline
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Mr. Roosevelt Opens Arsenal of Democracy
- Sub-Headline
- Signs War-Aid Bill, Orders Arms Sent to Britain at Once
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 12, 1941
- Historical Event
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Congress Passes Lend-Lease Act
This database includes 2,829 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- Richard L. Turner (AP)
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Margaret L.
- Location of Research
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers (www.proquest.com)
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.
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