1939 ⟶ US Amends Neutrality Act: Cash and Carry
Roosevelt signs into law the amendments to the Neutrality Ac...
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1935
1939
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📜 US Passes the Neutrality Act of 1935
The Neutrality Act of 1935 is passed in the United States imposing a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war and it also declared that American citizens traveling on ships of warring nations traveled at their own risk.⟶
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📜 US Amends Neutrality Act: Cash and Carry
Roosevelt signs into law the amendments to the Neutrality Act: belligerents may buy arms from the United States, but on a strictly cash and carry basis, banning the use of American ships.⟶
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🇺🇸 United States Publicly Declares Neutrality
The United States publicly declares neutrality.⟶
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🇺🇸 US House Passes Lend-Lease Bill
US House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease bill.⟶
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🤝 Lend-Lease Act Signed
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act (now passed by the full Congress) allowing Britain, China, and other Allied nations to purchase military equipment and to defer payment until after the war.⟶
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