WW2

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini
    Fascist dictator BENITO MUSSOLINI ordered the Italian army to invade ETHIOPIA
  • Neutrality Acts

    Neutrality Acts
    The United States Congress and President Roosevelt passed three important laws — all called NEUTRALITY ACTS
  • Hitler marching his troops

    Hitler marching his troops
    Hitler marched troops into the Rhineland of Germany, directly breaching the TREATY OF VERSAILLES
  • Quarantine Speech

    Quarantine Speech
    In October, he delivered his famous QUARANTINE SPEECH in Chicago
  • Austria getting annexed

    Austria getting annexed
    Hitler's troops marched into Austria and annexed the country
  • Munich Pact

    Munich Pact
    The Munich Pact recognized Germany's claim to the Sudetenland and Italy's claim to Ethiopia in exchange for the promise of no further aggression.
  • Repel Neutrality Acts

    Repel Neutrality Acts
    In May 1939, Roosevelt urged Congressional leaders to repeal the arms embargo of the earlier Neutrality Acts
  • WW2 began

    WW2 began
    September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany
  • Ending shipments

    Ending shipments
    By the end of 1940, the United States had ended shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron ore to Japan
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    All these assumptions were wrong. As the bombs rained on PEARL HARBOR on the infamous morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941