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prohibited the shipping of arms to nations at war, including the victims of aggressions. This would reduce the possibility of maritime attacks on American vessels.
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renewed the law of the previous year with the additional restrictions — no loans could be made to belligerent nations. Nor were any Americans permitted to travel on the ships of nations at war. There would be no more LUSITANIA incidents.
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limited the trade of even non-munitions to belligerent nations to a "CASH AND CARRY BASIS." This meant that the nation in question would have to use its ships to transport goods to avoid American entanglements on the high seas.
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a skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops broke out at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. The cause of the fracas is unknown, but the Japanese government used it as a pretext to launch a full-scale invasion of China -
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany
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he delivered his famous QUARANTINE SPEECH in Chicago. For the first time, Roosevelt advocated collective action to stop the epidemic aggression. But his hopes of igniting American sensibilities failed
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USS Panay (PR-5) was evacuating American citizens when it came under attack from Japanese aircraft, killing three men and wounding 43 sailors and five civilians. The Japanese claimed the attack was unintentional. -
The 1939 invasion of Poland by both Germany from the west and the Soviet Union from the east led to the beginning of World War II. -
Hitler was now free to seize the territory Germany had lost to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. On September 1, 1939, Nazi troops crossed into Poland from the west.
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the site of the unprovoked aerial attack on the United States by Japan on December 7, 1941.