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Hitler is named leader of the Nazi Party in Germany
Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany by Paul Von Hindenburg where he quickly established a regimen called the Third Reich. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed
International agreement in which states compromise to not use war to solve their conflicts or problems -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria which lead to the Mukden incident. -
Enabling Act of 1933 is issued
It was a law imposed by the German Reichstag in which made Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers. -
Neutrality Act of 1935 signed
Act that prohibit the trading of war materials and arms with the countries in a war. American people travel on warring ships by their own risks. -
Selective Service Act is passed
It set the first peacetime conscription in US history. It lay that all men between 18 years and 64 years had to register with the Selective Service. -
Lend-Lease program enabled
It provided US military aid for external countries that were on war. -
FDR wins a third term as president
Roosevelt defeated Wendell Willkie. He still remains as the first and only president to win more than 2 terms. -
A Philip Randolph’s march and Roosevelt’s response
A march on Washington organized by Philip Randolph with the purpose to pressure US into desegregating armed forces and giving fair works to african americans. Then Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 8802, with the objective to prohibit any discrimination in the defense industry. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service strike the US Naval Base in Hawaii -
Adolf Hitler declares war against the United States
Since US declared war on Japan, Germany declares war on the US.
