dec 17, 1940 - Destroyers-for-Bases Deal

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Since FDR couldn’t outright sell US destroyers to GB, gave them 50 older but still serviceable ships & gave the US the right to build military bases on GB islands in caribbean

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ByZoe

10 May 2018

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Date:

dec 17, 1940

Now

~ 84 years ago

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