World War 2 Events

By cmsmvecchio

  • Frankilin Rosevelt elected president

  • Adolf Hitler is oppointed chancelor of germany

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    World War 2

  • German president paul von dies

  • Most americans remain strongly isolation, opposed to U.S. intervention in foregin wars.

  • German jews were stripped of citzin ship and civil rights

  • Halinan forces capture the ethiopian capitol of addis ababa.

  • Franklin re-elected as president

  • Rosevelt, supporting the chinese risistance to japan, declines to enforce the nuetrility act and does not declare an embargo.

  • in adefeanant for isolations congress

  • the selected survice and training act reqiures all men age 21 to 35 to register

  • The U.S. begins its "Lend-Lease" program to supply Britain and other Allied nations with war materiel on credit. The act formally ends U.S. neutrality, and Hitler orders U-boat attacks on U.S. merchant ships.

  • The USS Niblack fights off a German submarine while rescuing survivors from a torpedoed Dutch freighter.

  • The term of service for draftees is extended.

  • Germans begin U-boat attacks along the east coast of the US.

  • The reconquest of the northern Philippines begins as U.S. forces invade Luzon and occupy Manila.