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The Nuetrality Acts are renewed for 14 months.
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Adolf Hitler makes his first move in reocuppying the demilatarized zone between Germany and France known as the Rhineland. This action was in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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U.S. policy that allowed sales of weapons to warring nations as long as recipients arrange for transportation on their own ships and pay immediately in cash.
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A speech given by FDR calling for an international effort to stop the expansion of aggressor nations.
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Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Daladier reach an agreement at the Munich Conference to give Germany the Sudetenland in hopes of appeasing Germany.
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Thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were damaged in Germany. The Jews are blamed and 26,000 are sent to concentration camps.
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The USSR and Germany reach an agreement to not attack each other, effectively shocking the world.
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Hitler orders Nazi forces to invade Poland. Marks the beggining of World War II as France and Britian declare war as a result of the invasion of Poland.
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Allowed the U.S. to offer weapons and other war supplies to theAllied Powers to fight against the Axis Powers, regardless of their ability to pay.
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An agreement between FDR and Winston Churchill that defined their post-war goals.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor naval base, destroying most of the U.S. fleet and over 3000 men were killed or wounded.
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The U.S. declares war on Japan, three days later Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
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Battle between Japanese and Amerian war planes that stopped the Japanese advance on Austrailia.
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The U.S. breaks the Japanese code and uses it to strike a major blow to the Japanese navy.
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The U.S. and Great Britian begin an offensive in Northern Africa.
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Allied forces begin to invade Italy and Mussolini is overthrown.
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A force made up mostly of U.S. soldiers begins an offensive assult on the beaches of Normandy.
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Hitler launches the last major German offensive on the western front.
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FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joesph Stalin meet to plan for after the war.
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After six weeks of fighting the U.S. prevails, securing several key air feilds.
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The Germans surrender to the Allied Powers.
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The bloodiest battle in the Pacfic concludes with the U.S. holding control of the air fields that were needed to bomb Japan.
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The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima following Japan's refusal to surrender.
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The second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
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