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1940 presidential election
president Franklin D. Rossevelt was elected for his third term in office. -
september 1940
selective training and service act. -
march 1941
congress assed the LendLease act. the act said that the president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the united states. -
june 1941
htiler broke the agreement he had made in 1939. germnay invades the soviet union.
roosevelt orders U.S. navy to product lend-lease shipments. -
August 1941
individual surface attacks by individual U-boats that gave a way to what was know as the wolf pack attack. -
September 1941
president roosevelt gave the navy permission for the U.S. warships to attack German U-boats in selfdefense. -
December 1941
Roosevelt recieved a decoded message that instructed that Japan peace envoy to reject all American peace proposals. Roosevelt declaed war.
