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The US Moves Towards War

The US Moves Towards War. Use pages 756-757 in your textbook to find out when the following events happened and mark them on your timeline Congress authorizes the selling of arms to nations at war The Axis Powers sign the Tripartite Pact. The Neutrality Act of 1939

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The US Moves Towards War

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  1. The US Moves Towards War

  2. Use pages 756-757 in your textbook to find out when the following events happened and mark them on your timeline • Congress authorizes the selling of arms to nations at war • The Axis Powers sign the Tripartite Pact

  3. The Neutrality Act of 1939 • Allowed the US to sell arms to countries at war if those countries paid cash and transported the weapons on their own ships • Allowed Roosevelt to help Britain • The US was the largest industrial power in the world • Sold large numbers of rifles and machine guns to Britain • Gave Britain 50 destroyers in exchanges for leases on two military bases • The destroyers were worth a lot more • The Tripartite Pact • In part because of fear that the US would join the war, Germany signed a mutual defense treaty with Italy and Japan • Mutual defense treaty: if one countries is attacked, the others will defend it • Thought that it would keep the US out of the war

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