A reason the Neutrality Acts were revised to allow cash-and-carry in the 1930s was

As fascist governments expanded in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, many Americans began to see the danger of aggression and reconsider strict neutrality. The cash-and-carry revision let countries at war buy supplies if they paid immediately and transported them themselves, reducing risks to U.S. ships while allowing aid to countries resisting fascism. Germany needing supplies was not the reason for the change.

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