Sworn Allies: Echoes of Pan-Americanism in the Soviet-American Lend-Lease Agreement

Aim. Identification of the foundations of the ideas of the US leadership about the place of the Lend-Lease Agreement in the system of the world order created by the United States, from 1823 to 1941

Methodology. A brief analysis of US foreign policy doctrines in the 19th – first half of the 20th century. and an analysis of the points in the Lend-Lease Agreement, which proceed from the doctrinal foreign policy attitudes of the United States. The key method of the study is the reinterpretation of published diplomatic historical sources.

Results. The main conclusion of the scientific article is the doctrine of American centrism, US leadership at least three times passes the "red thread" in the Lend-Lease Agreement, it is an important part of the Lend-Lease ideology, and does not imply equal relations between the United States and the USSR.

Research implications. The prospects for the study are seen in the continuation of the analysis of the Yalta-Potsdam agreements in the light of the findings on Lend-Lease presented in this scientific article. It is assumed that an attempt to impose equal agreements on the United States in Yalta and Potsdam led to the rejection of the very spirit of Yalta and Potsdam.

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