WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Cash and Carry provision
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Flight or Fight provision
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Economic Advantage provision
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Axis Support provision
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Act forbade selling implements of war or lending money to belligerent countries under any terms. US passengers traveling on foreign ships were advised that they did so at their own risk.
Detailed explanation-3: -To help Britain and France defeat Germany, Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1939, which permitted Americans to sell arms to nations at war as long as the nations paid cash.
Detailed explanation-4: -U.S. Neutrality during World War II Declarations of war in Europe in 1939 forced Congress to relax these policies, allowing nations at war to purchase war materiel from the United States on a “cash and carry” basis.