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From isolationism to war
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Hitler is the Chancellor of Germany
Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany which had drew the United States closer to war even more now -
Neutrality Acts of 1935
The first of these, in 1935, banned the United States from providing weapons to nations war. The second, 1936, banned loans to such nations. The last on, 1937, permitted trade fighting nations in nonmilitary goods as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves. -
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The macro polo bridge incident leads Japan to invade China. The Japanese Army opened fire attacked on the Marco Polo Bridge along with the modern railway bridge to the southeast of town. This lead into a full-scale ware between the Empire of Japan and China. -
Cash and Carry policy
This is a policy that has permitted trading military goods fighting nations. If these nations had paid cash and cargo themselves then they would be fine with them -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland begins World war 2. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion and Germany had won. 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes broke through Polish defense along the border. -
The Attack
180 Japanese warplanes streaked overhead. Half of the Pacific Fleet lay at in anchor in Pearl Harbor, crowded into an area less than three miles square.This had started at 7:00 AM in the morning and it had ended at 9:45. 2,400 Americans had been killed and nearly 1,200 wounded. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt was aware of Japan's aggressive moves in the Pacific. In July 1940, Roosevelt wanted to limit what Japan could buy from the United States.He wanted to threaten Japan so they can stop there expansion and then he froze Japan's financial assets in the United States because the Japanese forces took complete control of the French Indochina. Leaders in the United States and Japan sough ways to avoid war with each other. -
United States Decleares War
The day after the attack of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt asked Congress to delcear war on Japan. One memeber who was a pacifist named Jeannette Rankin of Montana had voted against declearing war. Even the American First Committee called on it's member to back off the war. -
Germany and Italy Declearing War on United States
Germany and Italy decleared war on the United States and for the second time in the century, Americans had been drawn into a Worl War.
