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Reverse lend-lease was a program where Allied nations provided aid to U.S. troops stationed abroad during World War II. This was a reciprocal arrangement to the United States' Lend-Lease Act, which supplied war materials and other essential goods to Allied nations.12

The Lend-Lease Act, proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and passed by Congress in March 1941, allowed the U.S. to provide aid to countries deemed vital to American defense. While primarily intended to help Great Britain, the program was extended to China and the Soviet Union, among over 40 other nations. The total value of U.S. lend-lease aid exceeded $49 billion, with a portion of this cost offset by reverse lend-lease contributions, which amounted to approximately $8 billion worth of aid to U.S. forces.12

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