Is when Roosevelt realised the Lend Lease Act. In my opinion this is Roosevelt making the decision that we are going to be a part of this war one way or another. This act made it able …show more content…
The people of the United states wanted didn’t want to be a part of WWII because as a country the United States had just come out of the Great Depression, the economy was extremely poor at the time and had a stock market that was overinflated. At this time the United states had an extremely small military it wouldn’t be enough to fight with. So it shows you that at the time America just wasn’t in a place to fight a war. …show more content…
Be sure to include any events, terms, or people that may support your response. Many people changed their views over the course of the years leading up to America joining the war, the first opinion that people had before even considering joining the war was full on wanting isolationism. The first Neutrality Act, this was the first of the three Neutrality Acts that was passed. The reason the first act that barred americans from selling arms or lending money to war countries was passed is because many Americans follow isolationism, so congress passed the First Neutrality Act in 1935 and 1936. This followed the views that many Americans have of staying out of things along with that view was the Second Neutrality Act that stated ships can’t take passengers of goods to war nation, this act came in 1937. What was one of the first thing that started to change American views was when France got taken over by Germany, this made the Americas start to feel sympathy about the situation that their allies were in. Roosevelt felt very strongly about this and it lead to the Third Neutrality Act and the Lend Lease Act, the final of the three Neutrality Acts was the ban on selling weapons, but Britain had control of the Atlantic and we were selling goods to them and them only. The Lend Lease Act was Roosevelt's own act which allowed the president to sell arms to