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Japan quits the League of Nations
Japan withdrew from the league of nations as a result of the Manchurian Railway Incident in northen China. When the league did not support them and under pressure from other nationsJapan withdrew as it no longer supported the concepts of the League. -
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World War ll
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Cash and Carry Plan
Cash and carry was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation. Various policies forbade selling implements of war or lending money to belligerent countries under any terms. -
Bases for Destroyers Deal
As the Battle of Britain intensified, United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull signaled agreement to the transfer of the warships to the Royal Navy. In exchange, the U.S. was granted land in various British possessions for the establishment of naval or air bases, on ninety-nine-year rent-free leases. -
US Draft bill enacted
It initially required civilian males between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards. After the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Congress extended eligibility for the draft to men between the ages of 18 and 45. Draftees were selected through a lottery. -
Axis Powers Act is signed
The "Axis powers" formally took the name after the Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on September 27, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. The pact was subsequently joined by Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria. -
Lend Lease Plan
This act ended the pretense of its neutrality. Adolf Hitler recognized this and in response ordered German submarines to attack US vessels such as the SS Robin Moor, an unarmed merchant steamship. -
Pearl Harbor Day
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal is a tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. During 1942-43 it was the scene of bitter fighting between Japanese and Americans. -
Allies Invade Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. D-Day was the term used for the day of actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. -
Roosevelt Re-elcted for the 3rd Time
Roosevelt was reelected by Americans who valued his strong leadership, he proved a highly effective commander in chief after the December 1941 U.S. entrance into the war. -
Yalta Conference
The wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
FDR Dies
Roosevelt's death was met with shock and grief across the U.S. and around the world. His declining health had not been known to the general public. Roosevelt had been president for more than 12 years, longer than any other person, and had led the country through some of its greatest crises to the impending defeat of Nazi Germany and to within sight of the defeat of Japan as well. -
VE Day
The date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima had an atomic bomb dropped on it near the end of World War ll. -
Nagasaki
The United States conducted an atomic bombing against the city of Nagasaki in Japan on August 9, 1945. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; free access to raw materials; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.
