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Roosevelt won the election of 1940 and became the first president to have ran for 3 consecutive terms.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a treay and became the Axis powers.
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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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Hitler broke the agreement he had made in 1939 with Stalin not togo to war and invaded the Soviet Union.
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proposal to extend the term of draftees passed in the House of Representatives by only one vote
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German U-boats sank the U.S. destroyerReuben James, killing more than 100 sailors
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a Japanese dive-bomber swooped low over Pearl Harbor the largest U.S. naval base in the Pacific. The bomber was followed by more than 180 Japanese warplanes launched from six aircraft carriers
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