USA HISTORY

laws passed to limit U.S. involvement in future wars; based on the belief that loans and trade had drawn the nation into World War I

(A) Cash-and-Carry

(B) Lend-Lease Act

(C) Selective Training and Service Act

(D) ** Neutrality Acts

Concept note-1: -The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts passed by the US Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II.

Concept note-2: -Between 1935 and 1937 Congress passed three “Neutrality Acts” that tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations.

Concept note-3: -Between 1935 and 1937, Congress passed three separate neutrality laws that clamped an embargo on arms sales to belligerents, forbade American ships from entering war zones and prohibited them from being armed, and barred Americans from traveling on belligerent ships.

Concept note-4: -In 1936 and 1937, the Neutrality Acts had been expanded to restrict the sale of arms and war materials during a period of isolationist sentiment. However, in 1939, the rising threat to democracy in Western Europe-and pro-democratic forces in China-spurred Roosevelt to ease these restrictions.

Concept note-5: -On August 31, 1935, Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.