* 1939 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August.

* November 4 – WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.

Neutrality Act may refer to:

* Neutrality Act of 1794, outlaws military operations against nations with which the U. S. is at peace ; still in force in amended form

* Neutrality Act of 1818

He also declared a " moral embargo " against the belligerents, covering trade not falling under the Neutrality Act.

The Neutrality Act of 1936, passed in February of that year, renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months.

Roosevelt invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act but came before Congress and lamented that the Neutrality Acts may give passive aid to an aggressor.

He prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4 the Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo.

Furthermore, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were repealed, American citizens and ships were barred from entering war zones designated by the President, and the National Munitions Control Board ( which had been created by the 1935 Neutrality Act ) was charged with issuing licenses for all arms imports and exports.

* Neutrality Act of August 31, 1935

* Neutrality Act of February 29, 1936

* Neutrality Act of May 1, 1937

* Neutrality Act of November 4, 1939

Although the Washington Administration had declared that the treaty remained valid, President Washington's formal Proclamation of Neutrality, and the subsequent Neutrality Act of 1794, effectively invalidated the military provisions of the treaty and touched off a period of increasingly deteriorated relations between the two nations.

When Congress repealed the Neutrality Act in November 1939 to permit the selling of aircraft to the belligerents, Arnold became concerned that shipments of planes to the Allies slowed delivery to the Air Corps, particularly since control of the allotment of aircraft production had been given to the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department in December 1938, and by extension, to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a White House favorite.

The defendants face possible life prison terms for violation of the U. S. Neutrality Act and various weapons charges.

The America First Committee launched a petition aimed at enforcing the 1939 Neutrality Act and forcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of the war.

Mackenzie went to the United States where he was arrested and charged under the Neutrality Act.

Purchases were then made by the Chinese under the " Cash and Carry " provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939.

The findings of the committee gave momentum to the non-interventionist movement and sparked the passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1930s, in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939.

Nye was instrumental in the development and adoption of the Neutrality Acts that were passed between 1935 and 1937.

Between 1936 and 1937, much to the dismay of the pro-British President Roosevelt, Congress passed the Neutrality Acts.

He supported the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and also every amendment aimed at making those acts more stringent.

* May 1, 1937: Neutrality Acts of 1937

In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.

The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, which eventually led to World War II.

Congress refused membership in the League of Nations, and in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, the gradually more restrictive Neutrality Acts were passed, which were intended to prevent the U. S. from supporting either side in a war.

It is sometimes thought to commemorate the withdrawal of Allied troops, but in fact celebrates Austria's Declaration of Neutrality, which was passed on October 26, 1955.

Reflecting this sentiment, Congress had passed the Neutrality Acts three years previously, which banned the shipment or sale of arms from the U. S. to any combatant nation.

He also found out that negotiations for the ending of the Armed Neutrality had started and so withdrew on 17 May.

In May the Neutrality Proclamation of May 13 was issued.

As U. S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York, during May – July 1869 Barlow prosecuted Cuban independence rebels for violating the Neutrality Act and disbanded the filibuster expeditions on the Perit, Quaker City, and Whiting steamers.

National Capital Freenet Executive Director ( 2002-2008 ) John Selwyn speaks at the Net Neutrality Rally, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, 27 May 2008

National Capital FreeNet DSL technicians Daniel Brousseau ( left, blue shirt ) and Anna ( right ) at the Net Neutrality Rally, Ottawa, 27 May 2008

On 27 May 2008, NCF staff and members attended the Net Neutrality rally on Parliament Hill, John Selwyn spoke at the rally and NCF made a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opposing Bell Canada's bandwidth throttling of DSL service, including NCF's.

Following the sinking of the U. S. destroyer on October 31, many of the provisions of the Neutrality Acts were repealed on November 17, 1941: merchant vessels were allowed to be armed and to carry any cargoes to belligerent nations.

The invasion was allegedly in fear that Reza Shah was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Nazi Germany during the war: However, Reza Shah's earlier Declaration of Neutrality and refusal to allow Iranian territory to be used to train, supply, and act as a transport corridor to ship arms to Russia for its war effort against Germany, was the strongest motive for the allied invasion of Iran.

* Neutrality Acts of 1930s, a series of acts intended to prevent the U. S. from being drawn into a war

ii., War and Neutrality, pp. 271 – 273 ) that the acts, the prevention of which is aimed at, are not legitimate acts on the part of the armed forces of the enemy, but illegitimate acts by private persons, who, if caught, could be quite lawfully punished, and that a precautionary and preventive measure is more reasonable than reprisals.

*" U. S Department of state, Neutrality acts "