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U.S. History II © ACCESS Virtual Learning 2022 Name: Jesus Hernandez     Date: 10-29-2023     School: Grissom High School     Facilitator: Mrs. Walker     4.03 Neutrality Debate T-Chart (36 Points) Compare U.S. actions of trying to remain neutral throughout the 1930s to Japanese actions of building an empire by completing both sides of the T-Chart. U.S. Actions Japanese Actions Disillusioned by World War I and struggling with problems at home caused by the Great Depression, America chose to remain neutral and isolate herself from growing problem in the rest of the world. 1. The United States enacted a policy of isolationism (minimal involvement with foreign affairs), to stay out of the war in Europe. 2. The America First Committee was started in 1940 by isolationists and gained 800,000 members. 3. As early as the mid-1930s, congress passed several Neutrality Acts to keep the U.S. out of the tensions caused by aggressive dictators overseas. 4. The U.S. enacted a “ Cash and Carry ” policy (nonmilitary goods for cash with no U.S. delivery) in which only nonmilitary goods would be sold to countries at war and only if the country picked up the goods themselves. 5. The Neutrality Act of 1939 called for the sale of weapons to France and Great Britain but still on cash and carry basis only. 6. In March 1941, FDR pushed for the Lend-Lease Act allowing help to any nation whose defense is important to the United States. 7. The U.S. would now become the great “ arsenal of democracy ” providing weapons needed to protect In the 1930s, Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, invaded lands in China and throughout Eastern Asia to build a Japanese empire. 8. In 1931 Japan invaded mineral rich Manchuria , a region in northern China. 9. Over the next five years, the depression gave Japan’s military more control in the government. In 1937 Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China . 10. In 1937, Japan violently took China’s capital city of Nanjing. During the “ Raping of Nnjing ,” Japanese troops sacked the city, massacred 300,000 Chinese, and raped thousands of women. 11. In 1940, General Hideki Tojo became war minister of Japan and dispatched troops to occupy the northern section of the French colony of Indochina (present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos). 12. In September 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact officially aligning with Germany and Italy. 13. In 1941, Japan signed a Neutrality pact with the Soviet Union to prevent involvement in future fighting and occupied the rest of Indochina. 14. Japan occupied the rest of Indochina, closer to U.S. territory in the Philippines .