Progression of US Involvement in WWII Timeline

By KJHerring

  • Spetember 1940

    U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service bill, which begins America's first peace-time draft.

  • 1940 Presidential Election

    As the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), a Democrat, broke with tradition and ran for a third term, which became a major issue. The surprise Republican candidate was maverick businessman Wendell Willkie, a dark horse who crusaded against Roosevelt's perceived failure to end the Depression and his supposed eagerness for war. Roosevelt, acutely aware of strong isolationist sentiment in the U.S., promised there would be no involve

  • March 1941

    Roosevelt's Lend- Lease act. They lend a suprise to any country

  • June 1941

    Support Stallin/ dictator.

  • August 1941

    Atlanta Charter

  • December 1941

    Attack on Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941