What is the lend-lease act?

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Answer 1

Above is a great answer.  The meaning of the L-L Act in world history is that it enabled Britain to keep on fighting Germany.  Without it, they may have had to sign some kind of armistice or cease fire before the end of 1941.  Or they would have been fighting a weak holding action, and Germany would have been more successful in attacking Russia.  Almost any way you cut it, the course and outcome of WWII would have been very different.

Answer 2

The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to "the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, and many other countries received weapons under this law.

By allowing the president to transfer war matériel to a beleaguered Britain--and without payment as required by the Neutrality Act of 1939--the act enabled the British to keep fighting until events led America into the conflict. It also skirted the thorny problems of war debts that had followed World War I.

Lend-Lease brought the United States one step closer to entry into the war. Isolationists, such as Republican senator Robert Taft, opposed it. Taft correctly noted that the bill would "give the President power to carry on a kind of undeclared war all over the world, in which America would do everything except actually put soldiers in the front-line trenches where the fighting is."