FDR's Early Foreign Policy
By: Inna Hwang
Destroyer-For-Bases deal with Britain
- Between the US and Britain
- September 1940
- Roosevelt's compromise for helping Britain
- Britain received 50 old but still serviceable US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on British Islands in the Caribbean.
- this agreement helped to establish the Anglo-American alliance of World War II.
Lend-Lease Act of 1941
- Passed in March 1941
- America sought to become "the great arsenal of democracyā€¯
- US permitted Britain to obtain all U.S. arms needed on credit
- The United States sent arms, goods, and money to aid Britain
- These commodities came to a net worth of about 31 billion dollars
- To make sure that the goods were sent safely, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to patrol the Atlantic (Sent soldiers to Greenland, and soon to the Soviet Union)
- Roosevelt proposed ending the cash-and-carry requirements of the Neutrality Act. (Many isolationists opposed this act.)
Neutrality Act of 1935
- Authorized the prohibition of all arms shipments to either side in a war once the president had declared the existence of belligerency.
- forbade any U.S. citizen from travelling on belligerent ships.
Neutrality Act of 1936
- This act forbade the granting of loans and credits to belligerents.
Neutrality Act of 1937
- U.S. ships were prohibited from transporting any passengers or articles to belligerents
- U.S. citizens were forbidden from traveling on ships of belligerent nations
- Cash-and-Carry
Neutrality Act of 1939
- Allowed arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis
- ended the arms embargo
- repealed earlier neutrality acts
Atlantic Charter of 1941
- Vision that world would throw away their traditional beliefs in military alliances and spheres of influence
- Govern through democratic process
- International organization for arbitration
- Every nation has the right to self determination
- No territorial gains after WW2
- Territorial adjustments according to people who occupied area
- Freedom of seas