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The first act of European aggression was not committed by Nazi Germany. The League of Nations refused to act, despite the desperate pleas from Ethiopia's leader Haile Selassie. -
Prohibited the shipping of arms to nations at war, including the victims of aggression. This would reduce the possibility of maritime attacks on American vessels. -
Hitler directly breached the Treaty of Versailles -
Renewed the law of the previous year with the additional restrictions — no loans could be made to belligerent nations. -
limited the trade of even non-munitions to belligerent nations to a "cash and carry basis." -
In Chicago for the first time, Roosevelt advocated collective action to stop the epidemic aggression. But his hopes of igniting American sensibilities failed. Even when a Japanese plane bombed the USS panay on December 12, there was no cry for a response. -
Broke out at Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing.The cause of the fracas is unknown, but the Japanese government used it as a pretext to launch a full-scale invasion of China. Hoping to deliver a quick knockout punch, the Japanese furiously bombed Chinese cities and advanced with their better-equipped army. -
Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin agreed to put their mutual hatred aside. Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year Nonaggression Pact. Hitler was now free to seize the territory Germany had lost to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Nazi troops crossed into Poland from the west. -
France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. World War II had begun.