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President Roosevelt tried to stop the expansion of the Japanese military , by placing a embargo on important naval and aviation supples to Japan, such as oil, iron ore, fuel, steel, and rubber.
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Commander of United States Army forces in Asia struggled to hold the U.S. positions in the Philippines with little support. The main land attack came on December 22. MacArthur positioned his forces to repel the Japanese invasion, but he badly miscalculated the strength of the enemy and was forced to retreat.
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The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval adn air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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President Roosevelt addresses congress and declares war on the empire of Japan.
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The government set up the War Production Board to oversee the conversion of peacetime industry to war industry.
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The Philippines fall to the Japanese.
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75,000 allied soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces in the Philippines. Japanese soldiers forced them to march 55 miles up the Bataan peninsula. More than 7,000 died.
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The United States sent 2 aircraft carriers, the USS Lexington and the USS York Town to counter Japans moves in New Guinea.
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16 B-25 bombers flew off the deck of the USS hornet to bomb Toyko in retaliation of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Congresswoman Editch Nourse Rogers introducted a bill which became the WAC in 1943, to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, lab technicians for the United States Army.