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Stimson doctrine passed
Letter from U.S. to China and Japan Which followed Japan's siezure of Manchuria. -
FDR elected president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
banned shipment of war materials to belligerents and forbade U.S. citizens to travel on belligerent vessels. -
MacArthur assigned to Phillipines
Assigned military advisor. -
Neutrality act of 1936
Banned loans to belligerents. -
Neutrality act of 1937
Extended the provisions of past acts acts to civil wars. -
Neutrality act of 1939
Banned U.S. ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports. -
Invasion of Indochina
AKA The Vietnam Expedition to prevent China from importing arms and fuel. -
Oil embargo of Japan
ceased oil exports to Japan because of domestic oil consumption. -
Invasion of Phillipines
led by Douglas MacArthur and continued to the end of the war. -
Pearl Harbor
An attack by Japan leaving 4 U.S. Navy Battleships sank, along with 3 cruisers, 1 minelayer and 3 destroyers. -
FDR's Speech
"Only thing we hav to fear is fear itself" which was a call to arms to engage American citizens in the war. -
Bataan Death March
A JApanese war crime. 60 mile march occured after the battle of Bataan. A transfer of 75000 American and Phillipino war prisoners.