Unit 10:: The United States and World War II
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The United States did not enter the war in Europe when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Instead, America responded to World War II by remaining neutral (at least in the formal sense) while giving economic aid to Allied forces of Great Britain and France. At first, America lifted several provisions of the Neutrality Act of the 1930s, which had barred the country from supplying military arms to the belligerents. In March of 1941, after the capitulation of France to the Nazi forces, America pioneered the Lend-Lease program, which sent armaments to the Allied forces (by this time, including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Free French resistance) as support in return for very little but a promise of future consideration.

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