The Cash- and- Carry policy was a policy that allowed the US to trade arms and ammunition to foreign nations at war under specific rules that favored the United States. The main point of this policy was to ensure that no American chips or people were endangered or put at risk during the trading activity. Due to previous incidents in history, the US deemed foreign nations at war a threat to themselves if they were to sail to their waters. In order to make sure that American safety was ensured, this policy required foreign ships to SAIL to America, pay of the wanted goods in CASH, and then SAIL the goods back to their nation. This meant that no American life was in jeopardy.
Though this policy was revised and changed many times, it stayed as a foundation of the Neutrality Act of 1937 and later on 1937. In short, this policy allowed the US to benefit while staying safe from war under the provisions of the Neutrality Act.
Nice summary of the Neutrality Act-you did a good job making this Act easy to understand. Adding on, because the Neutrality Act didn't let the US get involved in aiding foreign countries, this negatively impacted their Allies such as Britain and France. Although these countries could trade for military supplies by coming to the US as long as they payed in cash, this requirement made them feel a greater need to not use up their money reserves, which would prevent them from getting the help that they needed from the US.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good post. I like how you thoroughly explained what Act detailed while saying how it made an impact on American foreign policy. This clearly followed the words of founding father George Washington, who wanted nothing to do with foreign alliances. Americans, true to their word, maintained this policy all the way up until American entrance was inevitable
ReplyDeleteThis was a very well done post I like how you even put a link in case we were more interested in investigating more into this topic. I liked how you quite thoroughly what the cash and carry policy was and how America really did not want to put themselves in the face of war against other countries. How was the the Neutrality act of 1937 revised specifically what did they change or add to the neutrality act ? and how did it change the face of the war?
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