(A) signing of a collective security pact with Latin American nations
(B) ** passage of neutrality legislation forbidding arms sales to warring nations
(C) embargo on the sale of gasoline and steel to Japan
(D) President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s exchange of American destroyers for British naval and air bases
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -During the 1930s, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in World War I contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism.
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: -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.
Concept note-4: -Roosevelt prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4, he signed the Neutrality Act of 1939 into law, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations (Great Britain and France) on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo.