Today, in 1941, FDR signed the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the United States to ship supplies on loan to nations fighting Nazi Germany. At the end of 2006, Great Britain made its last annual payment ($83 million) to the United States, paying off its debts to the US arising from WWII.

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