High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! During the early years of World War II before the United States became a formal belligerent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a region of the Atlantic, adjacent to the Americas as the Pan-American Security Zone. Within this zone, United States naval ships escorted convoys bound for Europe. In practice, this greatly aided the United Kingdom, which was largely dependent upon the Atlantic convoys.The Zone was one of a number of actions taken by the United States that ran counter to its formal state of neutrality. It was set up in October 1939 at US behest by the Declaration of Panama signed by the nations of north and south America. Within the Zone which extended between 300 and 1,000 nautical miles (560 and 1,900 km; 350 and 1,200 mi) offshore, the signatories would not tolerate belligerent acts.

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