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Hitler becomes cnancellor of Germany.
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Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benita Mussolini, invades Ethiopia.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt sings the 1937 Neutrality Act. Which bans travel on belligerent ships. Forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents and issues on arms embargo with warring nations
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The Japanese defeats the Chinese forces in a clashnear Peking, taking control of North China.
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Prsident Franklin D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carring arms to China or Japan.
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In respones to Japanese action in China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving to act together to "quarantine" aggressors to protect the world from war.
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Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat PAnay in the Yangtze River in China.
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Time Inc. releases an anit-Nazi progenanda newsreel entitled Marth of Time in Nazy Germany.
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War Offically Starts!
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Hilter takes neutral Denmark, Norway,Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
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Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels and killing 2,355 servicemen and 68 civilins
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The first of nearly 3 million allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the Northern shores of France.
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship, Missouri.
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