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The dry dock at Pearl Harbor in 1919, before the Harbor was bombed in 1941
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Senate Passed a Supplemental Lend-Lease Bill
October 23, 1941
The Lend-Lease Act gave Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without the U.S. actually entering the war. Nonetheless, it brought the United States one step closer to direct involvement in World War II. Soon after, in December 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This forced America's direct involvement in World War II. Congress passed and Roosevelt signed the Declaration of War against Japan.
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