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how did ocngress respond to FDR asked for neutrality legislation in 1935?
with prohibitions on selling arms or granting loans to belligerents and warned Americans against travelling on the vessels of belligerents.
1937 provision
Amidst fears that this neutrality legislation might hurt the US economy, a provision was added in 1937 that allowed Americans to sell anything 'except lethal weapons' to belligerents on a 'cash on the barrel-head and come and get it' basis.
what was the president granted?
discretionary powers to implement this 'cash and carry'.
opinion polls feb 1937
Opinion polls were increasingly popular and accurate, and a February 1937 poll found 95 per cent of Americans supportive of the new legislation and convinced that the nation should not participate in any future war.
what was Roosevelt convinced of by late 1938?
that the United States could be vulnerable to air strikes by Hitler's expansionist Germany and that even if the United States were not attacked, it could find itself alone and without any trading partners in a world of fascist powers.
