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Neutrality Act of 1935
The Act instituted a general arms and war material embargo against all belligerent nations. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
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Neutrality Act of 1936
The Act renewed the 1935 Neutrality Act and ended all loans or credits to belligerent nations -
Germany invades the Rhineland
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FDR's Second Term
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Neutrality Act of 1937
Made the former Neutrality Act's permanent , prohibited US citizens from traveling on belligerent passenger vessels, banned American vessels from carrying arms to belligerents and instituted cash-and-carry for non-arms trade -
Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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Japan invades China
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Munich Agreement: Germany obtains the Sudetenland
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Britain and France's choice not to stand up to Hitler made the Nazi's a threat to Soviet security and so for the shortterm Stalin agreed to sign a peace-treaty with Hitler. Hitler did not want to fight a two front war (at least for a while) and also agreed. -
German Invasion of Poland
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United States declares neutrality to European Conflict
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Neutrality Act of 1939
The arms embargo is repealed but trade must be cash-and-carry. The rest of the Neutrality Act information remains the same -
Germany Invades Norway and Denmark
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Chamberlain steps down and Churchill becomes Prime Minister
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France Surrender to Germany
In the same railway car that the German and surrendered to the French in 1918 -
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
The first peacetime conscription in United States history -
Tripartite Pact
This Pact established the Axis powers in WWII. It state that if one of the three nation declared war on a seperate nation or vis-vera the other two members of the pact would subsiquently declare war on the seperate nation -
FDR's Third Term
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Lend-Lease Act
The Act gave FDR the powers to trade all equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers as long as cash-and-carry was sitll followed -
The Atlantic Charter
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Attack of Pearl Harbor
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Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire
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Germany and Italy declare war on United States