Good morning everyone, so this morning we will be talking about more rather we will begin our conversation about neutrality, that conversation will last over the course of several lecture, so it will wrap up other countries neutralize, but this morning we are gonna focus on what neutrality looks like an event for the americans, especially in the first half of the war, so the thing that i want you to understand the most and this is really vital because its a very different understanding of neutrality that we have today neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean an activity, it did not mean passive 80, and im certainly did not mean impartiality, so if it doesnt mean those things and what on earth does neutrality mean, the definition of neutrality differs with each country, some like belgium will say that they never gave their neutrality, they were invaded, right but they always remained officially neutral so they were aggrieved against as a neutral country, others like switzerla