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How did the Destroyers for Bases agreement of 1940 help Britain?

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September 3, 1940: FDR approves the “destroyers for bases” deal with Great Britain. Through this deal, the United States transferred destroyers to the British Navy in exchange for leases for British naval and air bases.
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D. It gave Britain the newest American ships.

The old Destroyers were an extraordinary resource for escorts in the North Atlantic and Britain was generally out of cash to pay for them.

The consequent Lend Lease program produced imperative material for Britain who was in desperate straits at the time. The little British domains in the Pacific and somewhere else were a little cost to pay. Roosevelt could bolster Britain and demonstrate a benefit while as yet avoiding the war.

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