American Neutrality Timeline

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Kellogg-Briand Pact
    62 nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact to outlaw war all together and make it illegal. This created isolationism in America.
  • Japaneses Invasion of Manchuria

    Japaneses Invasion of Manchuria
    Japanese invated Manchuria and the League of Nations dissaproved this action and caused Japan to leave the League of Nations. The United States still remaned neutral and wanted nothing to do with it.
  • Neutrality Acts

    Neutrality Acts
    The Neutrality Acts prohibited the sales of different arms to waring nations, prohibited loans and credits to waring nations, banned involment in the Spanish Civil War, No traveling to nations at war, and nations that want to buy goods from Amaerica must pay with gold and come to America to get them.
  • Japanese Invasion of Mainland China

    Japanese Invasion of Mainland China
    Japan invated China because they had the good that Japan wanted. Like German people, Japanese people found themselves superior to the Chinese and they wanted to create a bigger and better Japan.
  • Panay Incident

    Panay Incident
    Japanese planes bommed the American gunboat Panay. The Japanese believed that the gunboat was a Chinese boat and sunk the ship. They took full responsibility when they found out it what ans American gunboat.
  • Neutrality Act (Cast and Carry)

    Neutrality Act (Cast and Carry)
    The Cash and Carry part of the Neutrality Acts was to only allow people from other countries to buy American goods if onky they sailed to America to buy the goods in gold and go back home. This was a form of Neutrality and Isolationism.
  • Building up Defenses

    Building up Defenses
    After the Battle of Britian, Great Britian started to build structures that were used as preperation for the anti-invasion of Britian.
  • Fall of France

    Fall of France
    Hitler and his German soldiers invated France. German people wanted to create a bigger and better Germany and the invasion on France was part of the process. The invasion lasted longer than a month. Americans were allied with France so this scared the American people.
  • Destroyer Deal

    Destroyer Deal
    FDR gave Britian some old Destroyers that we were not using so they can fight against Germany, in hopes that they will get returned to us. FDR was going against Neutrality.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britian lasted a little over 3 months. This was another act of Germany's part of a better Germany. This was the first battle that Germany's armed forces did not succeed in.
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act
    This is how Congress reacts to the fall of France. All men between the ages of 21 and 35 must register to the Selective Service.
  • Arsenal of Democracy Speech

    Arsenal of Democracy Speech
    A speech that FDR gave over the radio saying that the United States are going to help Great Britian in the fight against Germany.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    This is the Act that provided the US military the aid that they need to fight foregin nations durning WWII.
  • U-Boat Wolf Packs

    U-Boat Wolf Packs
    U-Boat Wolfpacks are when a bunch of U-Boats swarm in one pack.
  • Supporting Stalin

    Supporting Stalin
    Hitler went against the treat that him and Stalin had so the United States and the Solviet Union joined forces and went against Hitler together.
  • Inv. Fr. Indochina

    Inv. Fr. Indochina
    The US froze all of Japan assets that were in America. Japan lost over half of their teritory on the seas and lost all of their trade in the process.
  • US Embargo

    US Embargo
    Japan moved to invade China and in doing this, Japan lost most of their oil teritory on the seas and the United States froze all of Japan assets that were in America and this cause an uproar with Japan which caused them to want a war.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter
    A policy statement that was issued by FDR and Winston Churchill to become and remain Allies.
  • Shoot on Sight

    Shoot on Sight
    FDR issued an order saying that the US Navy warship should be sent out and attack every German ship that you see.
  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact
    A pact alligned with Japan, Germany, and Italy that these nations will stand by each other and fight for each other.
  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Pearl Harbor Attack
    Japan called a war to the United States. They did this by bombing Pearl Harbor, and this is because they wanted to keep the US military away from Japan.