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Fascist dictator BENITO MUSSOLINI ordered the Italian army to invade ETHIOPIA -
The United States Congress and President Roosevelt passed three important laws — all called NEUTRALITY ACTS -
Hitler marched troops into the Rhineland of Germany, directly breaching the TREATY OF VERSAILLES -
In October, he delivered his famous QUARANTINE SPEECH in Chicago -
Hitler's troops marched into Austria and annexed the country -
The Munich Pact recognized Germany's claim to the Sudetenland and Italy's claim to Ethiopia in exchange for the promise of no further aggression. -
In May 1939, Roosevelt urged Congressional leaders to repeal the arms embargo of the earlier Neutrality Acts -
September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany -
By the end of 1940, the United States had ended shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron ore to Japan -
All these assumptions were wrong. As the bombs rained on PEARL HARBOR on the infamous morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941