The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 empowered the president to:
A) put battleships in the Atlantic to protect American interests in Asia.
B) lend weapons and supplies to all nations fighting either the Germans or the Japanese.
C) lend American soldiers to France and Britain to assist them in war.
D) send advisers to assist any country fighting the Germans.
E) form a peace alliance with Hitler in exchange for arms and ammunition.
B
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