![]() Although initially there was tension between the ZOB and the ZZW, both groups decided to work together to oppose German attempts to destroy the ghetto. Another group formed an organization as well called Z.Z.W (for the Polish name, Zydowski Zwaizek Wojskowy, which means Jewish MIlitary Union). The Z.O.B., led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz. (for the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). When reports of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed an organization called the Z.O.B. In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. Between 19, underground resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Lend-Lease continued until the end of the war in 1945. The bill permitted the President to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article." In April 1941 this policy was extended to China and in October 1941 to the Soviet Union. ![]() to supply the British without entering the war. ![]() Lend-Lease was the way around, although the original act was mainly intended to allow the U.S. ![]() But by 1941 they were running out of gold to pay for materials, and the increasily sympathetic United States sought ways to get around this and supply Britain with material. Due to earlier Neutrality Acts, Britain had been purchasing material from the United States under a cash-and-carry basis, paying for material with gold. Enacted in March 1941, Lend-Lease was a policy under which the United States supplied materials to Britain, China, and eventually the Soviet Union. ![]()
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