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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Roosevelt and Churchill draw up Atlantic Charter. U.S. and Great Britian war goals. Included freedom of the seas
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Roosevelt ordered the navy to shoot German submarines on sight.
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Roosevelt recieved a decoded message that instructed Japan's peace envoy to reject all American peace proposal. The next day Japeniese attacked Pearl Harbor
