Franklin Delano Roosevelt2 September 1940
Congress agrees to lend 50 destroyers to Britain in return for 99 yr nave base leases
United States · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Congress agrees to lend 50 destroyers to Britain in return for 99 yr nave base leases
Appointed Head of Lend-Lease Administration
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.