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Neutrality Act
1935 Congress outlaws arm sales or loans to nations in war, and extended the ban on arm sales and loans to nations engaged in civil war. -
Moving away from neutrality
Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a "cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships. -
Roosevelt runs for 3rd term
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Axis Power
Americans were jolted by the news that Germany, Italy, and Japan had signed a mutual defence treaty called the Tripartite Pact. The three nations became known as the Axis Powers -
Lease-Lend plan
Under this plan, the president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defence was vital to the United States." this was known as the Lend-Lease Act -
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill draw up Atlantic Charter. U.S. and Great Britian war goals. Included freedom of the seas -
Shoot on sight
Roosevelt ordered the navy to shoot German submarines on sight. -
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt recieved a decoded message that instructed Japan's peace envoy to reject all American peace proposal. The next day Japeniese attacked Pearl Harbor
