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U.S. stays neutral
The United States declares its neutrality in WWll after Germany invades Poland. -
Lend Lease Act
The U.S> government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz receives its first Polish prisoners. -
The Lend-Lease Act is approved
The Lend-Lease Act provided $7 billion in military credits for American manufactured war supplies to Great Britain and other Allies. -
U.S. takes Iceland
The United States occupies Iceland, taking over its defense from Great Britain and attempting to stop invasion by Nazi Germany -
Executive Order 9066
Franklin Roosevelt signs the lay confining 110,000 Japanese Americans to relocation camps during WWll after Pearl Harbor -
First Nuclear Chain Reaction
The first nuclear chain reaction is produced at the University of Chicago in the Manhattan Project. This created fission of the Uranium U-235 under the direction of physicists Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi. -
Race Riots
Race Riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries. -
U.S. tragedy of WWll
The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of WWll occurs when two ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station in California explodes. The accident killed 320 people. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany surrenders at France. It is accepted by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
