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Herbert Hoover as President
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Japan Invasion of Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the Leauge of Nations. Japan attacked Manchuria for their oil and could not being punished economically did not effect them much considereing they were already poor. -
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was a charismatic speaker, who channeled popular discontent with the post-war Weimar government into suppoert for his fledging Nazi Party. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as President
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Stalin's Great Purges
Stalin was the leader of Communist Russia, and he was paranoid of opposition. His paranoia led to the Great Purge where millions of people were executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia. -
Reciprocal Tariff Act
Provided the negotiation of tariff agreements between the US and separate nations. -
Congress Passes the Neutrality Act
Prohibited the export of "arms, ammunition, and implements of war" from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufactures in the US to apply for an export license. -
Italo-Ethiopian War
Italy defeats Ethiopia in an armed conflict. The war demenstrated the League of Nations ineffectiveness when decisions were not supported by the Great Powers. -
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
It was a conflict between Chinese and Japanese troops near the Marco Polo Bridge which developed into a warfare between the two countries. -
Munich Conference
Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Daladier signed the Munich Agreement which permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Germany Invades Poland
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The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Repeal of Neutrality Act Embargo Provisions
FDR appeared before Congress and asked that the Neutrality Acts, a series of laws passed earlier in the decade, be amended. Roosevelt hoped to lift an embargo against sending military aid to countries in Europe facing the onslaught of Nazi aggression during World War II. -
Germany Attacks France
The German plan of attack, codenamed Case Yellow, entailed an armoured offensive through the Ardennes Forest, which bypassed the strong French frontier defences of the Maginot Line. The advance would then threaten to encircle French and British divisions to the north, stationed on the Belgian frontier. -
Roosevelt Signs "Destoyers for Bases" Campaign
The US gave the British more than 50 obsolete destroyers, in exchange for 99-year leases to territory in Newfoundland and the Carribean, which would be used as naval bases. -
President Roosevelt Signed the Lens-Lease Bill
It permitted him to "sell transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government. It was the principal means for providing US Military Aid to foreign nations.
