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1939 in American politics

  • Cash and carry (World War II)The first Neutrality Act passed in August 1935. It forbade selling implements of war to belligerent countries under any terms.
  • Neutrality Acts of the 1930sThe Nye Committee hearings between 1934 and 1936 exposed a deep public conviction that bankers and the arms industry had orchestrated U.S.