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During The Great Depression, the United States was economically at its all time low with unemployment rate at double digits.
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Japan was considered to be the main territory that composed the Pacific theater in WWII. The European Theatre was considered to be made up of the U.S, Great Britain and other allies.
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Roosevelt believed that if he did a better job working on relationships with foreign markets instead of messing them up, that he can pick up the pieces from the damage that crippled the US economy during The Great Depression. He tied The New Deal into his foreign policy.
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After getting into office in 1933 Franklin D Roosevelt launched a group of federal programs that were known as The New Deal.
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Germany, Japan, and Italy join forces and sign an Anti-Comintern Pact. This, they thought was to show that they denounce Communism. This joined forced would be known as the Axis Powers.
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The United States provided Military Aid to their allies Great Britain before entering and being a part of WWII.
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The United States made Japan angry by cutting off all oil exports with Japan.
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The United States start a lend-lease program that allows the U.S to oil, food, and war tools to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
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The U.S Froze all German and Italian credit and a month later they do the same to Japan. These countries were known as the Axis countries and because of the freezing of their credit they were unable to withdrawal fund that were invested in U.S financial institutions.
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There was a new law that was passed during the growing war, Executive Order 8802 that did not allow racial discrimination within the U.S national Defense Industry. In both theaters and factories that made military supplies in the U.S had African-Americans serving their country.
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Japan and the United States could not come to an agreement making Japan more and more angry, therefore leading Japan to surprise attack the U.S at Pearl Harbor.
