<P> The lend - lease policy , formally titled `` An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States '' , ( Pub. L. 77 -- 11 , H.R. 1776 , 55 Stat. 31 , enacted March 11 , 1941 ) was a program by which the United States supplied Free France , the United Kingdom , the Republic of China , and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food , oil , and materiel between 1941 and August 1945 . This included warships and warplanes , along with other weaponry . The policy was signed into law on March 11 , 1941 and ended overnight without prior warning when the war against Japan ended . The aid was free for all countries , although goods in transit when the program ended were charged for . Some transport ships were returned to the US after the war , but practically all the items sent out were used up or worthless in peacetime . In return for the aid , the U.S. was given leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war . </P>
<P> The lend - lease policy , formally titled `` An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States '' , ( Pub. L. 77 -- 11 , H.R. 1776 , 55 Stat. 31 , enacted March 11 , 1941 ) was a program by which the United States supplied Free France , the United Kingdom , the Republic of China , and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food , oil , and materiel between 1941 and August 1945 . This included warships and warplanes , along with other weaponry . The policy was signed into law on March 11 , 1941 and ended overnight without prior warning when the war against Japan ended . The aid was free for all countries , although goods in transit when the program ended were charged for . Some transport ships were returned to the US after the war , but practically all the items sent out were used up or worthless in peacetime . In return for the aid , the U.S. was given leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war . </P>
how did the united states help great britain early in world war ii
how did the united states help great britain early in world war ii
with food , oil , and materiel
with food , oil , and materiel