In the 1920s and 30s the United states wanted to remain neutral because they didn’t want to be involved in foreign affairs. World war I had just ended and the country was going through a depression so they wanted to focus more on repairing the nation and going back to a sense of “normalcy”. The first neutrality act barred American’s from borrowing or lending money to warring nations as well as selling them arms. When the Lend-Lease Act was passed by congress it essentially eliminated all neutrality because the United States was shipping weapons, food, and equipment to foreign nation whose struggle against the Axis assisted the United States defense.(essentially assisting foreign nations in the war). In 1941 when The bombing of Pearl Harbor
