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[narrator] How could FDR
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World War II: Race to Victory

How could FDR balance Britain's desperate need for supplies on credit with the pressure...

[narrator] How could FDR balance Britain's desperate need for supplies on credit with the pressure to appear neutral? Ingeniously, he disinterred an old law from 1892 and repurposed it as "Lend-Lease," an idea he compared to lending something to your neighbour. The Americans
were not allowed to lend money to people who were at war

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[narrator] How could FDR
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balance Britain's desperate need for supplies on credit
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with the pressure to appear neutral?
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Ingeniously, he disinterred an old law from 1892
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and repurposed it as "Lend-Lease,"
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an idea he compared to lending something to your neighbour.
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The Americans were not allowed to lend money
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to people who were at war.
Duration
23 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:17
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
history
Production
Ulrike Oettinger Filmproduktion,Pia Frankenberg Filmproduktion, Hamburg,ZDF

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The six-part documentary series reveals how and why the central alliance between Great Britain, the United States and The Soviet Union was formed leading into World War II. The series paints an in-depth picture of the race to ulti...
S01 • E03 Their ability to maintain themselves - World War II: Race to Victory 00:08
Their ability to maintain themselves
S01 • E03 Likewise, the Germans, whose supply lines - World War II: Race to Victory 00:13
Likewise, the Germans, whose supply lines
S01 • E02 That's what the American Neutrality Acts - World War II: Race to Victory 00:05
That's what the American Neutrality Acts
S01 • E02 So Lend-Lease was a way of getting around that, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:17
So Lend-Lease was a way of getting around that,
S01 • E02 Lend-Lease meant, as Roosevelt explained, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:16
Lend-Lease meant, as Roosevelt explained,
S01 • E02 When your neighbour asked to borrow your hose - World War II: Race to Victory 00:11
When your neighbour asked to borrow your hose
S01 • E02 And when the fire is put out, you can either return it to me, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:15
And when the fire is put out, you can either return it to me...
S01 • E02 [narrator] Lend-lease led to a ferocious debate - World War II: Race to Victory 00:44
[narrator] Lend-lease led to a ferocious debate
S01 • E06 It was a mistake for Roosevelt - World War II: Race to Victory 00:06
It was a mistake for Roosevelt
S01 • E03 We are not going back any further. - World War II: Race to Victory 00:04
We are not going back any further.
S01 • E06 It was quite clear from May, 1945, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:14
It was quite clear from May, 1945,
S01 • E03 We will stay here. We will prepare." - World War II: Race to Victory 00:07
We will stay here. We will prepare."
S01 • E05 Well, they were brought back, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:08
Well, they were brought back,
S01 • E03 Very methodical. Some would say cautious, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:09
Very methodical. Some would say cautious,
S01 • E06 [Iwan] What Roosevelt fundamentally decided - World War II: Race to Victory 00:11
[Iwan] What Roosevelt fundamentally decided
S01 • E05 We needed the intelligence from them, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:12
We needed the intelligence from them,
S01 • E03 He understood his intelligence, - World War II: Race to Victory 00:11
He understood his intelligence,
S01 • E06 But Roosevelt's ultimate hope was that he would be able - World War II: Race to Victory 00:09
But Roosevelt's ultimate hope was that he would be able
S01 • E05 [narrator] The D‐day victory was reported extensively - World War II: Race to Victory 00:23
[narrator] The D‐day victory was reported extensively
S01 • E03 [narrator] El Alamein was seen as the gateway - World War II: Race to Victory 00:19
[narrator] El Alamein was seen as the gateway