US Neutrality

Knowing of the devastation war causes, President Roosevelt told US citizens that US will not enter the war that had been going on in Europe. Roosevelt had declared that the US is a neutral country and had the rights to trade with all countries. The US wanted to hold a good economy and that meant keeping out of the war which always hurts the eco

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The US stopped sending arms to any foreign countries knowing that it would be a natural target for warring countries. Not only did the US try to stay out of the war but earlier, France and Britain set up Appeasement Policies. The US had wished to do trade without provoking war with nations so the US set up the Neutrality Acts. The United States succeeded in preventing war much better than did the allied European nations. nomy; entering the war earlier than it did would have weakened the economy and would have made it hard for the US maintain its status as a powerful nation. France and Britain ignored the aggression by Hitler hoping that he would be happy with the land he had conquered and stop. Because of the sinking of ships that had US citizens on it, the US feared it would draw them into the war. The US wanted to be seen as not favoring any countries which included not giving any loans to any belligerent countries or countries that did not repay any previous debts. The Treaty of Versailles prohibited Germany from taking over stated countries and building an army but Hitler, Germany’s leader ignored the prohibition after withdrawing from the League of Nations. Germany had sunk ships in Europe that had held US citizens so the prohibition had been passed that had been made to prevent US citizens from traveling on other nations ships in order to keep the US a neutral country. Countries looked at the US as favoring countries; Germany felt that the US had been threatening them because of the continual trades with other countries so Germany had sunk various ships that involved citizens from the United States. The US passed the idea of Cash and Carry, all warring nations needed to pay cash and come to the US to pick up goods that were traded. The appeasement did not work and soon pacts were formed by Germany and the small power had become a great military threat, creating the Rome Berlin Axis, an alliance between Hitler’s hero, Mussolini, Italy’s fascist ruler.

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