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Selective Servive Act is passed
To that end, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed
The Kellogg-Briand pact-62 nations agreed to condemn recourse war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Sep 19, 1931 – Feb 27, 1932)
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Hitler is named leader of the Nazi Party in Germany
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Enabling Act of 1933 is issued
It passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat on 24 March 1933, and was signed by President Paul von Hindenburg later that day. The act stated that it was to last four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice. The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers. -
Neutrality Act of 1935 signed
Neutrality Act of 1935. Roosevelt's State Department had tried to convince lawmakers about legal rules that would allow the President to put punishments in place in a picky way where only certain things are selected. This was rejected by Congress. The 1935 act, signed on August 31, 1935, forced on people a general on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. -
Lend-Lease program enabled
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
FDR wins a third term as president
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. -
A Philip Randolph march and Roosevelt's response
In 1941, A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights activist, proposed a march on Washington, D.C., to protest discrimination in the military and in industry. He called on African Americans from all over the United States to come to Washington and join him. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Adolf Hitler declares war against the United States
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor answered that question.
