The Anglo-Soviet Agreement, The Moscow Conference and The Lend-Lease Program for the USSR
Barely a week after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, British Ambassador Stafford Cripps had been discussing with both Stalin and Molotov the terms of a joint Anglo-Soviet Declaration. He then organized the first of the Military missions to Moscow, headed by General Mason MacFarlane. The Anglo-Soviet Agreement was to be made public on July 12, 1941.
The Moscow Conference in September 1941 laid the details of the Lend-Lease Program between the USA and the USSR. But underlying diplomatic issues raised concerns about the solidity of such an uncommon alliance...
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
Here's a brief summary of what was delivered during the course of the war:
• 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
• 4.5 million tons of food
