About H. Hopkins' visit-personal representative of F. Roosevelt-to the USSR (facts from documents)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Soviet-American relationship in the beginning of the Great Patriotic War when intensive interaction between 2 countries began which was determined by necessity to defeat common enemy-aggressive fascist-military alliance of Germany, Japan, Italy and their satellites. Official position of the USA administration from the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War was very watchful. But as the heroic fight of the Red Army was reaching its highest point Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his close associates started to express the opinion about more active collaboration with anti-Hitler coalition. Important mile stone for development of Soviet-American relationship was the visit of H. Hopkins - influential American diplomat and devoted friend of the President Roosevelt - to Moscow. The purpose of Hopkins' mission was discussion of possibility of American military and economic aid to the Soviet Union in the framework of lend-lease program. © IDOSI Publications, 2014.