WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which law was passed by the United States in 1939 to ensure isolation and promote their non-intervention policy?
A
The Lend Lease Act
B
The Neutrality Acts
C
The Atlantic Charter
D
The Four Freedoms
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Initially, this proposal failed, but after Germany invaded Poland in September, Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1939 ending the munitions embargo on a “cash and carry” basis. The passage of the 1939 Neutrality Act marked the beginning of a congressional shift away from isolationism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Annotation: The Neutrality Act of 1935. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -20. This joint resolution may be cited as the “Neutrality Act of 1939". Approved, November 4, 1939, 12:04 p. m.

Detailed explanation-4: -On May 1, 1937, Congress passed a joint resolution known as the Neutrality Act of 1937, which amended and made the Neutrality Act of 1935 permanent. Under the 1937 Act, U.S. Citizens were barred from traveling on any ship registered to or owned by any foreign nation involved in a war.

Detailed explanation-5: -The passage is from the Neutrality Act of 1937. Whenever the President shall find that there exists a state of war between, or among, two or more foreign states, . . . it shall thereafter be unlawful to export . . . arms, ammunition, or implements of war from any place in the United States to any belligerent state.

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