In late summer 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty "overaged" destroyers to Britain in return for:
A) Republican promises not to ask for a peacetime draft
B) allowing the United States to build naval and air bases on British islands in the Caribbean
C) congressional approval of a draft registration act
D) fifty "outdated" British aircraft carriers
E) a renegotiated payment schedule of the Allies' war debt from World War I
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