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Italy invaded Ethiopia in October of 1935, launching a war that brought the Emperor Haile Selassie into exile, pave Italian occupation, and test the capacity and will of the League of Nation to check the aggression of expansionist states. -
Aimed at reversing the mistakes made that led to the American entry into the First World War. -
Hitler and Mussolini formed an Axis Alliance as they believed that the line that connected the two capitals would be the Axis around which the entire world would revolve. -
Renewed the law of the previous year with additional restrictions: no loans could be made to belligerent nations, nor were any Americans permitted to travel on the ships of nations at war. -
Chinese and Japanese troops broke out at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. The cause of this war is unknown, but the Japanese government uses it as a pretext to launch a full-scale invasion of China. -
This limited the trade of even non-munitions to belligerent nations to a "Cash and carry basis". This means the nation in question would need to use its ships to transport goods to avoid American entanglement at sea. -
America became involved abroad in the war due to the invasion of Poland from Germany in 1939, led by Adolf Hitler. -
The attack of Pearl Harbor from the Japanese Air Force led America to declare war. -
In early 1941, FDR made the fateful step of freezing Japanese assets in the United States and ending shipments of oil to the island nation. -
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in Tehran, leading U.S troops into Italy to invade.