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Lelu [443]
3 years ago
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Why did president franklin d roosevelt give britain 50 battleships?

History
2 answers:
Tpy6a [65]3 years ago
4 0
Britain needed the battleships to convoy goods across the Atlantic. They weren't just "given" to Britain at all, but transferred in exchange for use of British bases.
Sati [7]3 years ago
4 0

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Great Britain fifty battleships in the destroyers-for-bases deal. In the destroyers-for-bases deal, the United States gave Britain fifty aging destroyers and received in exchange ninety-nine years leases on eight British bases in the Western Hemisphere. This was a request by Winston Churchill to be able to defend the English Channel against feared German invasion.

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