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The U.S. stock market collapeses, beginning the Great Depression.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected.
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Japan's invadsioin of China initiated World War II in the Pacific.
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Germany's invasion in Poland initiated World War II in Europe.
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France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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The U.S. Congress passes the Neutrality Acts keeping the United States out of foreign conflicts.
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The United States transfers the headquaters of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor. Hawaii was a terriorty of the US from 1898 to August 21st, 1959 when it became the 50th state.
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Japan, Germany and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact, which united them as Axis nations. It states that the Axis Powers would aid each other if attacked by another nation not involved in the European War.
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The Lend-Lease Act allowed America to send supplies to Britian and the Allies.
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The Japanese attack fleet leaves Japan for Hawaii.
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On November 27, 1941,U.S. military leaders sent a warning to the heads of all U.S. Pacific bases. The military leaders at Pearl Harbor were warned to watch out for possible sabotage.
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The Japanese government sent a message to its diplomats in Washington, D.C. The first part of the message indicated that Japan would reject U.S.demands.
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At 6:00 A.M. the first wave of 180 Japanese planes takes off and at 6:30 A.M. the second wave of 170 planes takes off. The attack begins at 7:55 A.M. and Fuchida signals that the attack was successful. The attack is over by 9:45 A.M. with 21 ships sunk or damaged.
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The second part of the Japanese message told the Japanese diplomats to break off negotiations with the United States at 1:00 A.M, which meant that war would then be delcared.
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President Roosevelt delivered his speech to the Congress and asked them to declare war on Japan. The United States then declared war on Japan.
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Japan then attacks the Philippines, Midway, Wake, Guam, the Hong Kong islands, and the counties of Malaya and Siam.
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After Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, the United States declared war on them.
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The Executive Order allowed the US armed forces to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Roosevelt ordered the evacuation of Japanese Americans and they are put in internment camps until after the war.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies and Harry S. Truman becomes president.
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Japan surrenders to the United States and World War II ends.
