What did Carl Vinson do during the time leading up to World War II? A) convinced Congress to become active in the war B) develop
ed technologies to increase military power C) organized strikes and supported better pay for workers D) worked for more defense spending and built up the military
The best answer is D) worked for more defense spending and built up the military.
After the report that the Axis powers were exceeding the London Naval Treaty, Americans, British, and French had locked themselves into a position of inferiority, with a gap of development. Conservative sentiment within the U.S. Legislature was that another war was imminent, regardless of the London Treaty, which, after all, had only been signed by three western powers patently resistive to another conflict. By May of 1938, Republican Congressman Carl Vinson sponsored what has become known as the second Vinson Act, a new fleet construction law which mandated a 20% increase in the strength of the U.S. Navy. The new Vinson Act provisions ignored the limitations of the London Treaty.
