Read this excerpt from Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedom’s speech to Congress in 1941 to answer the question. Select the two examples that show what Roosevelt planned on providing the Allies to help them fight the Nazis.
Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. They do not need man power, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense.
The time is near when they will not be able to pay for them all in ready cash. We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.
I do not recommend that we make them a loan of dollars with which to pay for these weapons--a loan to be repaid in dollars.
I recommend that we make it possible for those nations to continue to obtain war materials in the United States, fitting their orders into our own program. Nearly all their materiel would, if the time ever came, be useful for our own defense.
Taking counsel of expert military and naval authorities, considering what is best for our own security, we are free to decide how much should be kept here and how much should be sent abroad to our friends who by their determined and heroic resistance are giving us time in which to make ready our own defense.
For what we send abroad, we shall be repaid within a reasonable time following the close of hostilities, in similar materials, or, at our option, in other goods of many kinds, which they can produce and which we need.
Let us say to the democracies: "We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledge."
We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender,
They do not need man power, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense.
We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom.
We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns.
I do not recommend that we make them a loan of dollars with which to pay for these weapons
The two examples that show what Roosevelt planned on providing the Allies to help them fight the Nazis are:
- We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns.
- They do not need man power, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense.