When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, President Franklin D. Though President Roosevelt wanted to provide assistance to the British, both American law and public fears that the United States would be drawn into the conflict blocked his plans.

World War II Allies: U.S. Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, 1941-…

• 400,000 jeeps & trucks.
• 14,000 airplanes.
• 8,000 tractors.
• 13,000 tanks.
• 1.5 million blankets.
• 15 million pairs of army boots.
• 107,000 tons of cotton.
• 2.7 million tons of petrol products.

The Lend-Lease Act, approved by Congress in March 1941, had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation’s official position of neutrality.

Why did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program with the Allies have strong opposition from isolationists? A. It shifted foreign policy away from neutrality.

Lend-Lease, as Roosevelt’s plan became known, ran into strong opposition among isolationist members of Congress, as well as those who believed the policy gave the president himself too much power.

The lend-lease program provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States. The plan thus gave Roosevelt the power to lend arms to Britain with the understanding that, after the war, America would be paid back in kind.

No, it could not have. Assuming the the USA is strictly neutral, only trading with the belligerent nations, there was no chance for the Allies to have won in Europe. After the Fall of France in 1940, only Britain and it’s colonies stood against Germany.