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The United States declares its neutrality in WWll after Germany invades Poland.
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The U.S> government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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Auschwitz receives its first Polish prisoners.
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The Lend-Lease Act provided $7 billion in military credits for American manufactured war supplies to Great Britain and other Allies.
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The United States occupies Iceland, taking over its defense from Great Britain and attempting to stop invasion by Nazi Germany
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Franklin Roosevelt signs the lay confining 110,000 Japanese Americans to relocation camps during WWll after Pearl Harbor
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The first nuclear chain reaction is produced at the University of Chicago in the Manhattan Project. This created fission of the Uranium U-235 under the direction of physicists Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi.
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Race Riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries.
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The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of WWll occurs when two ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station in California explodes. The accident killed 320 people.
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Germany surrenders at France. It is accepted by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
