Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt ask congress to pass the Lend Lease Act?

Answer 1

The Soviet Union had just been invaded by Germany.

More InformationHitler invaded the Soviet Union in "Operation Barbarossa" on 22 June 1941. However, the Soviet Union did not become an official participant in Lend-Lease until the end of September. For these three months, the US supplied the USSR with shipments of war materiel in exchange for payment in gold -- cash on the barrelhead.

I can find no official explanation for this, but one would have to suspect that there were troubling issues of trust between the western Allies and the USSR. In the summer of 1941, the Soviet Union was by no means allied with Great Britain and France in any meaningful sense. Indeed, Stalin's forces had acted in collusion with Germany on 1 September 1939, invading Poland from the east as Hitler invaded from the west. Right up until the Nazis invaded the USSR, Stalin had ruled eastern Poland as a communist satellite state.

By September, however, Hitler's troops had taken vast tracts of Soviet territory, and it was clear that Stalin needed all the help he could get.

Answer 2

The U.S. was supplying all of the Allied Powers with supplies during World War II. Roosevelt and the rest of America did not want to join the war.

Answer 3

Japanese attacked China in 1937 without a declaration of war, terming it a mere incident, and the u.s. was allied with china and were warring with Japan.

Answer 4

they wanted to assist the Nazi's but could not commit prior to pearl harbor-they were opposed to out involvement in world war two before that time. :) ur welcome

Answer 5

Britain was running out of supplies.