Destroyers-for-bases deal

a 1940 agreement whereby the United States supplied the United Kingdom with fifty destroyers in exchange for basing rights in Newfoundland and the Caribbean.

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The destroyers-for-bases deal was an agreement signed between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2, 1940, in which the United States traded certain ships in exchange for British land in the Caribbean.

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