WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In September 1939, after Germany had invaded Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Roosevelt invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act but came before Congress and lamented that the Neutrality Acts may give passive aid to an aggressor country. Congress was divided.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the end, the terms of the Neutrality Acts became irrelevant once the United States joined the Allies in the fight against Nazi Germany and Japan in December 1941.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to World War II, this was President Roosevelt’s revision of the Neutrality Acts: participants in the war in Europe could purchase war material from the U.S. but only if they paid for them full up front and arranged for the transport of the goods themselves.

Detailed explanation-4: -What did the Neutrality Acts do? Broadly, the Neutrality Acts placed a ban on the sale of American arms and munitions to any country at war (with exceptions, after Cash and Carry was implemented in 1937 and again in 1939). They also prohibited Americans from traveling to or on ships owned by belligerent nations.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Neutrality acts of 1935 and 1936 prohibited sale of war matériel to belligerents and forbade any exports to belligerents not paid for with cash and carried in their own ships. Thus, the United States was not to acquire a stake in the victory of any…

Detailed explanation-6: -Following two months of debate, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, meeting Great Britain’s deep need for supplies and allowing the United States to prepare for war while remaining officially neutral.