What program allowed the U. S. to provide weapons to belligerent powers if they paid for them up front and shipped them themselves?
Neutrality Act of 1936
Lend Lease Act

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire

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