alleryStart learning →What did Congress vote in September 1940?
AThe first federal tax on war profits
BThe first ban on arms sales abroad
CThe first peacetime conscription bill
DThe first loan to the Soviet Union
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. The first peacetime conscription bill
1. 1. The fall of France and the air attack on Britain had left few Americans neutral in thought.
2. 2. Congress voted immense sums for rearmament as the crisis mounted.
3. 3. In September 1940 it voted the first peacetime conscription bill ever enacted in the United States.
4. 4. The neutrality laws banning trade and credit to belligerents had been passed years earlier, between 1935 and 1937.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section DICTATORSHIPS UNLEASH WORLD WAR II_
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