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  president Franklin D. Rossevelt was elected for his third term in office.
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  selective training and service act.
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  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.
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  htiler broke the agreement he had made in 1939. germnay invades the soviet union.
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  individual surface attacks by individual U-boats that gave a way to what was know as the wolf pack attack.
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  president roosevelt gave the navy permission for the U.S. warships to attack German U-boats in selfdefense.
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  Roosevelt recieved a decoded message that instructed that Japan peace envoy to reject all American peace proposals. Roosevelt declaed war.