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The First Neutrality Act, adopted in 1935, imposed a ban on U.S. trade in arms and war materiel with all parties in a war. It also declared that American citizens traveling on belligerents’ ships did so at their own risk. In the mid-1930s congressional concerns about war grew as Italy invaded Ethiopia, Japan encroached on Manchuria, and Spain erupted in civil war.
Records of the U.S. Senate, National Archives and Records Administration