Ogdensburg Agreement

The Ogdensburg Agreement is an agreement that was concluded between Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in Heuvelton near Ogdensburg, New York, on August 17, 1940. It outlined a permanent plan for mutual defense overseas between the United States and Canada and established the Permanent Joint Board of Defense.

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