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AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
LEND-LEASE ACT
NEUTRALITY ACTS
• Neutrality Acts
• Legislation propose to prohibit trade with war time
countries
• 1935, no munitions or arms to belligerents
• 1936, no potential war materials (oil, steel)
• 1937, no Americans on belligerent ships, no ships in
war zones
• America First
• Committee designed to promote staying out of war
• Charles Lindbergh spokesperson
• Desperate for supplies to protect England, British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill implored
Roosevelt for assistance to fight off Germany’s
expected invasion.
Winston Churchill
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• By early 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
had no doubt that the U.S. needed to throw
its support behind England.
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NEUTRALITY ACTS
• Weapons
• Loans
• Cash & Carry
• Trade in nonmilitary goods
• Paid cash and transported
themselves
WHAT WAS THE LEND-LEASE ACT
• American Neutrality acts stated that
America could not give or sell any
supplies to anyone involved in armed
conflict.
• By 1941 Britain was the only country left
fighting Germany, but was suffering
heaving losses and constant
bombardment.
WHAT WAS THE LEND-LEASE ACT
• President Roosevelt felt that Britain was
the last democratic country in Europe
• Many Americans agreed with the
President that the fight against Germany
was a fight for Democracy
• Still, most Americans felt that it was not
our business to get involved in combat.
• Roosevelt came up with the
Lend-Lease Program.
• In exchange for the lease of
some British islands in the
Caribbean Sea, the U.S.
provided England with ships
and munitions.
• Technically skirting the
Neutrality laws, Congress
passed the Lend-Lease Act in
March 1941 after a bitter
debate.
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• Before writing and illustrating his famous children’s books,
Dr. Seuss spent a long career as a political cartoonist.
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