This measure was accompanied by a provision that one of its beneficiary countries would help develop a replacement for the gold standard. In support of it, the president at the time compared the situation to a neighbor needing a garden hose to put ou
This measure was accompanied by a provision that one of its beneficiary countries would help develop a replacement for the gold standard. In support of it, the president at the time compared the situation to a neighbor needing a garden hose to put out a fire, and this law reversed two major acts, including the Johnson Debt-Default Act. Opposed by William E. Borah, Robert Taft, and other isolationists, this law bypassed the Neutrality Act of two years prior by abrogating its provision of "cash and carry". Name this program in which America supplied weapons to countries like Brazil, China, the Soviet Union, and Britain, passed in early 1941.
This measure was accompanied by a provision that one of its beneficiary countries would help develop a replacement for the gold standard.
{Lend}-{Lease} Act(s) [or {lend}-{lease} program; or {Public} Law 77–11; or {H.R.} 1776; accept An {Act} to