HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Atlantic Charter, U-Boat
Document Summary
The cash-and carry- policy was established after the neutrality of 1937. It allowed other countries to buy things that were not weapons from the united states. The only thing was that the countries had to take away the goods with their own ships. However, as time passed president roosevelt felt that the. United states should help the allied army against germany. So the neutrality act was altered a little bit so that now the united states could sell military goods with countries in war. Even though roosevelt wanted to get rid of the embargo, the congress felt that the united states should adopt a weaker version of the embargo to support the isolationists. In general, the cash- and-carry policy slowly got weaker over the years; since it seemed that the united states wanted to help the allies win the war. Later on though, the united states would join world war ii and help the allies beat the germans: lend-lease.
