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neutrality act of 1935
-prohibited shipping/carrying arms to warring nations
-established Munitions Board to bring armament industry under federal control
-allowed sale of oil/steel
neutrality act of 1937
-frobade US citizens to travel on ocean-going vessels of nations at WAR
-allowed president to draw a list of non-military goods (grain), which US could sell to belligerent nations on “cash and carry” basis
-belligerent nations would have to pay UP FRONT, and transport goods on OWN ships.
-US could sell weapons to european on a
cash and carry” basis
-FDR proclaimed danger zones(US ships could not enter)
-aggressors couldn’t send ships to buy US munitions
-America became “Arsenal of Democracy”
neutrality act of 1939
Lend-lease bill Dec. 1940
-allowed FDR to give arms/war material to “any country whos defense deemed vital to the US”
-placed NO limits on quantities that could be shipped
-allowed “friendly” belligerents to use American ports
