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September 1939
Roosevelt persuaded congress to pass a "cash and carry" -
Septemeber 27 1939
Americans were julted by the news that Germany, Italy, Japan had signed -
Summer 1940
France had fallen and Britain was under siege -
March 1941
Congress passed Lend Lease Act -
June 1941
Hitler broke agreement he made in 1939 with Stalin not to go to war and invade Soviet Union -
September 1941
Roosevelt granted the navy permission for the US Warship -
September 4 1941
Roosevelt ordered navy commanders to respond -
mid October 1941
U-boat torpedoed the US destroyer kearny -
November 5 1941
tojo ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the United States