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EVENTS DURING THE WAR

Title Lorem Ipsum Foreign Policies of the 1930s

By: Josiah Mejia

U.S Non-Involvement? As it turns out, the United States in the 1930s has just finished dealing with Foreign Reparations and loans and has decided to choose a new approach towards foreign affairs. The U.S, at the time, decides to go solo and choose Isolationism as the way to approach Foreign Countries due to conflicts arising in Europe. However the United States, being an important figure at the time provides documentation declaring itself neutral and this is where we see the Neutrality Acts rise to the occasion. This act of Non-Interventionism gave the U.S time to focus on issues here on the states rather than attempting to help issues in foreign countries. At the time, one of Americas greatest economic downfalls was occurring also known as the Great Depression. For example, the U.S neutrality act of 1935 signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, created an embargo on trading in arms and war materials with ALL parties in the war.

Neutrality Act of 1935

The act ended all trade with any foreign party in arms or war materials during the war. It hurt the Allied Powers and assisted the U.S in its declaration of Neutrality.

Effects? Ended? This hurt Britain and France who were attempting to fight back against Nazi Germany at the time as part of the Allied Forces. Different Neutrality Acts affected different parties and called for further separation between the United States and the war. The neutrality acts were finally repealed in 1941 and therefore the United States entered the war and begun assisting the Allied Powers in their march against the forces of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitlers guidance. The United States was then considered the sleeping giant due to their all-of-a-sudden immense power during the war.

Neutrality Act of 1936

This act did not only further imply the regulations of trade stated in the Neutrality Act of 1935 but also stated that the United States would not provide loans or aid to any belligerents.

The End of Neutrality

The end of neutrality came with the Lend-Lease Act which then allowed for trade and loans with foreign countries in war materials and supplies, including those partaking in the war at the time.