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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 1937 Neutrality Act, which banned travel on belligerent ships, forbade the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issued an arms embargo with warring nations.
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Congress gives President Roosevelt 1 billion dollars to expand the Navy
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This is the first time a president has broken the two term tradition.
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The U.S. is still reeling a bit from the Great Depression.
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The United States withholds gas from Japan due to their continued aggression in China.
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First peacetime draft in history
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The United States extends the Japan embargo to include iron and steel.
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Thousands sent into the army
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Rousing speech where Roosevelt declared, "We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
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Roosevelt faces off against A. Philip Randolph over the issue of desegregating the war industries.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims the nation's commitment to the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. He also talks about a "lend- lease" program to deliver arms to Great Britain to be paid for following the war's end. Congress approves the bill.
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Roosevelt orders that the coast guard seize Axis ships that sail into American Ports.
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The American ship, Robin Moor, was sunk by a German torpedo. Roosevelt declares a national emergency.
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Roosevelt creates the Fair Employment Practices Commission in order to investigate discrimination complaints in wartime.
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Germany and Italy are forced to close their consulates.
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Germany turns on their ally
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Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802, which states that there shall be "no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin."
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The United States extends lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union.
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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) is established to ration scarce consumer goods and to set maximum prices on other products during wartime.
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Japan attacks the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbour
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President Roosevelt formally signs the declaration of war on Japan
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This brings American fully into World War 2
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They mobilized American support for the war effort using radio, television, the national press, and posters.
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Roosevelt proposes a massive budget to help fund the war
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Administers wages and work hours and to monitor working conditions in national industries.
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The War Production Board (WPB) to mobilizes American businesses for the war effort.
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Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, which sets the stage for Japanese Internment.
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John L. DeWitt issues orders to create Military Areas Number 1 and Number 2 in portions of California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona.
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Its mission was to “take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war.”
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Race riots break out all over the country in areas such as Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Mobile, Alabama, and Beaumont, Texas.
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Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting illustrates one of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms
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Norman Rockwell's Freedom to Worship painting illustrates one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms."
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Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want painting illustrates one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms."
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Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Fear painting illustrates one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms."
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Riots ensue as servicemen raid downtown Los Angeles targeting Mexican Americans.
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Norman Rockwell’s painting entitled "Rosie the Riveter" encourages women to join the war effort.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. With the death of President Roosevelt, Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States
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Germany surrenders, ending war on the European front.
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