Events leading up to U.S. involvement in WWII

By kaylamuenzenberger
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    Fascist Party rises to power in Italy

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    Nazi Party rises to power in Germany

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    Japan, lacking land and natural resources, becomes land-hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Hilter tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is imprisoned

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    Japan's economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

  • Japan's army seizes Manchuria (northern China)

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    Japan's military takes over government

  • Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of the German state

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    America passes a series of Neutrality Acts saying that the Us would withhold weapons & loans from all nations at war.

  • Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia

  • Hitler signs an alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

  • German troops invade the Rhineland

  • FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • Hilter demands the Sudetenland; Britain and Frace agree in the Munich Conference

  • Hitler annexses Czechoslovakia

  • Britain & France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

  • Hitler invades Poland - Blitzkrieg

  • France & Great Britian declare war on Germany

  • Japan controls most of eastern China

  • America First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism

  • Sitzkrieg ends - Germany attacks Denmark & Norway

  • Germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgium

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    German troops enter Paris & France surrenders

  • Japan allies with Germany & Italy - Tripartite Pact

  • Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nation's history - Selective Service Act

  • Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

  • German begins bombing England / Battle of Britain

  • Lend-Lease Act

  • Japan signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union

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    Japanese forces occupy Indochina; U.S. freezes Japan's American assets & cuts off trade

  • Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southest Asia; US Demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

  • German raids on England end

  • American military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes.

  • United States declares war on Japan

  • Germany & Italy declare war on the United States