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Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year nonaggression pact.
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A skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops broke out at the Marco Polo Bridge
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Hitler's troops marched into Austria and annexed the country.
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Japan dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor. 3,000 Americans were killed and 6 battleships were destroyed.
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Roosevelt advocated collective action to stop the epidemic aggression. But his hopes of igniting American sensibilities failed.