Why did FDR and Congress pass the Neutrality Acts
{"Image DocumentName": "Why did FDR and Congress pass the Neutrality Acts?", "Image ImageDescription": "In the mid-1930\u2019s, a Congressional investigation and investigative reporters found evidence that supported the idea that the United States had been pushed into World War I by banking and munitions interests. This evidence led Congress to pass a series of neutrality laws that made it illegal to sell arms or make loans to nations at war. The fourth of these acts, passed in 1939 in recognition of the Nazi threat to Western Europe\u2019s democracies, permitted the sale of arms to nations at war on a cash and carry basis. This meant that buyers would have to pay cash and send their own ships to American ports to pick up the supplies, thereby keeping American ships from being sunk by the Germans. The Roosevelt administration opposed the proposals because he believed that the laws might tie the United States\u2019 hands if Europe or China needed help in the future, but the President felt he had to sign the bills into law in order to insure remaining New Deal legislation would pass through Congress.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}