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Japan looking to expand and increase it's supply of natural resources invades Manchuria and establishes a puppet government (in violation of the League of Nations)

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Stimson Doctrine
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Hitler began rebuilding Germany’s air force, making democratic governments in Britain and France extremely nervous

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Italy’s leader Mussolini invades Ethiopia while America and the League of Nations does nothing to stop it

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spanish civil war:
ideological struggle between the forces of fascism.

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Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles by ordering troops to march into Rhineland when it was supposed to be demilitarized

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War breaks out between China and Japan when Japan invades its weaker neighbor. A US gunboat was sunk by Japanese planes but the apology was accepted by America’s government

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Germany invaded a part of Czechoslovakia — Sudetenland — because Hitler believed that he had a right to do so because Sudetenland has a German-speaking majority

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Germany invades Poland. Poland quickly surrenders to the overwhelming military tactics of Germany called Blitzkrieg, which featured fast moving tanks and air power.

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The United States begins to gradually counter isolationism by giving aid to European allies. United States established Cash and Carry, which was technically neutral, but allowed Great Britain access to U.S. weapons by sea, which Germany could not benefit from. Roosevelt enacted the Selective Service Act to train and prepare 1.2 million men for deployment, without officially marking Germany as an enemy.

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America First Committee:
after the world war 2 began in Asia and Europe, isolationists became alarmed by Roosevelt's pro-british policies.

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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

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the U.S. declares a war on Japan

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neutrality act
1935: authorized the president to prohibit all arms shipments
1936: forbade the extension of loans

4 freedoms and gave goals for end of war which made the US seem as though they were a part of the war