WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Absolute neutrality is an impossibility.” 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 Neutrality Act of 1935 prohibited exporting arms and ammunition to any foreign nation at war. In 1937, a new neutrality act prohibited Americans from traveling on ships owned by any belligerent nation, and declared that American-owned ships could not carry any arms intended for war zones.

Detailed explanation-3: -When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality. “The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the reasons the U.S. shift from isolationism and continental expansion to imperialism is due to economic motives. Throughout the machine age, American production grew rapidly. America began to look for new markets where it was led by increased nationalism.