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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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Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, the leader of the investigating committee, supported the fact that the United States only took part in the war to satisfy the greed of bankers and arms manufacturers.

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Neutrality Act of 1935 was created which allowed the President of the United States to prevent arms shipments as well as stop US citizens to travel on ships to hostile countries.

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Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia

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The Neutrality Act of 1936 was created. This act disallowed any extensions of loans and credits to belligerents.

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Spanish Civil War begins, fight between fascists and loyalists. General Francisco Franco led the fascists.

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Moving of German troops into Rhineland, breaking demilitarization clause of Treaty of Versailles.

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Full scale war erupts in China as Japan invades, US boat "Panay" sunk but Japan apologizes and it's all good

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Roosevelt delivers quarantine speech to rally support for containing fascism after Japanese invasion of China, public opinion overwhelmingly negative and isolationism wins

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Neutrality Act of 1937 was created. It prohibited the shipment of arms to the enemy side within the civil war in Spain

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Germany's annexing of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia following appeasement in the Munich Conference

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Roosevelt convinces Congress to increase military and naval budgets by 2/3 as "defense spending"

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General Francisco Franco defeated the loyalists and put forth a military dictatorship.

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Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia, breaking the Munich agreement.

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Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact that establishes nonaggression between the two sides, and guarantees that Poland is split in half during the invasion.

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Hitler invades Poland.

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England and France declare war on the Axis Powers.

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Roosevelt persuades Congress to pass Cash and Carry and reove some of the restrictions that came with the Neutrality Acts, allowing America to provide some support to Britain.

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America First Committee was created. Speakers like Charles Lindbergh went around the country to warn citizens about the dangers of getting involved in European affairs.

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The Selective Service Act is passed

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Destroyers-for-bases is passed to help Britain against the German navy.

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Election of 1940, in which Roosevelt ran for his third term in office, and promised that no one should have to participate in any foreign war. Won election due to strong economic recovery and fear of war.

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Four Freedoms Speech: Addressed by Roosevelt which proposed lending money to Britain for the purchase of U.S. war materials, and justified it arguing that the U.S. should help other nations defend their four freedoms: speech, religion, freedom from want, and from fear

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Lend Lease Act Passed: Proposed by Roosevelt in order to end cash-and-carry requirements of the Neutrality Act and permitted Britain to claim all of the U.S. arms it required on credit, which would be like "lending a neighbor a garden hose to put out a fire." Majority opinion shifted toward aiding Britain, so it was successfully passed.

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Roosevelt extends U.S. support for Britain by protecting its ships from submarine attack, which ordered the Navy to escort British ships which carried materials from U.S. shores to as far as Iceland.

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American destroyer Greer attacked by German submarine; Roosevelt orders navy to attack all German ships on sight.

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U.S. stops exporting of steel and scrap iron to all countries except Britain and nations of Western Hemisphere after Japan joins Axis. Japanese credits in the U.S. frozen and cut off their access to vital materials. Negotiations were attempted to be made regarding the distribution of oil to Japan, but ultimately did not work out.

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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor