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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign a mutual treaty,called the Tripartite Act. United States WWII enemies are officially formed.
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Roosevelt is elected to a 3rd Term as President. This has never happened before and never happened again. He won the election because the people trusted him.
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Britain is running short on war supplies, as a way to go round the neutrality act, FDR decided to "loan" weapons to them. the united states is clearly taking sides, they are choosing the allies over the axis.
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Hitler breaks the nonagressive act with Stalin and invades the Soviet Union. U.S. started to loan weapons to Soviet Union. the United States are choosing sides again
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FDR and Winston Churchill met on the battleship USS Augusta secretly. Both countries pledged freedoms of the seas, collective secruity, and disarmment. Roosevelt is looking for an excuse to joined the war.
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Germany submarines destroyed the USS Greer. FDR released the shoot on sight policy saying if you see a German U-boat, shoot it on sight. FDR is starting to declare war on Germany.
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Japan has a desire to expand and control all of East Asia. As a result of this expansion, the U.S. stops trading oil to Japan. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese set a aurprise attack on American soil. This was the biggest attack before 9/11. There were no more isolationism
