. . "The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled \"An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States\", (Pub.L. 77\u201311, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941) was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. This included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry."@en .