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  • President Roosevelt pressured the Congress greatly.
  • Congress people came to realize they had to approve the act to keep the US people out of the war (not send their own men to fight).
  • The depression caused a lot of joblessness. By approving the lend lease act there would be more jobs, ship yards reopened and other manufacturing plants could be reopened for business.
  • The UK was desperate for everything that would be provided by the lend lease act being approved. The island nations of the UK were at the mercies of the Nazis and the US Senators and Congresspeople realized they really should help them.
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To allow the U.S. to lend military equipment and supplies to any nation the president said was vital to the defense of the U.S.

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Q: Why did Congress pass the Lend-Lease Act and amend the Neutrality Acts in 1941?
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