15,697
edits
Changes
no edit summary
====Neutrality Act of 1937 Permitted to buy everything but arms from the United States====
[[File:SpanishCivilWar.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Republican soldiers talking to journalists (including Ernest Hemingway whose back is to the camera) in 1937.]]
The outbreak of the [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303765X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=014303765X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3b4a78d1db09f00817ca91a21523c1d1 Spanish Civil War] in 1936 and the rising tide of fascism in Europe increased support for extending and expanding the Neutrality Act of 1937. Under this law, U.S.citizens were forbidden from traveling on belligerent ships, and American merchant ships were prevented from transporting arms to belligerents even if those arms were produced outside of the United States. The Act gave the President the authority to bar all belligerent ships from U.S. waters, and to extend the export embargo to any additional “articles or materials.” Finally, civil wars would also fall under the terms of the Act.