1. Neutrality: Policy not law
2. Early test of our neutrality policy
Neutral rights and neutral duties
Failure to keep out of war in 1812
3. Neutrality fails in 1917
4. The neutrality act of 1935
5. Why congress acted
6. President Roosevelt's interpretation of the act
7. Our future neutrality policy
Basic neutrality
Travel in war zones
The arms embargo
Loans and credits
8. Trade and peace
A mandatory embargo on trade
"Trade at your own risk"
Moral suasion
Quotas
"Cash and carry"
9. Conclusion
Avoiding war
Maintaining peace