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Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictator BENITO MUSSOLINI ordered the Italian army to invade ETHIOPIA -
Neutrality Acts
The United States Congress and President Roosevelt passed three important laws — all called NEUTRALITY ACTS -
Hitler marching his troops
Hitler marched troops into the Rhineland of Germany, directly breaching the TREATY OF VERSAILLES -
Quarantine Speech
In October, he delivered his famous QUARANTINE SPEECH in Chicago -
Austria getting annexed
Hitler's troops marched into Austria and annexed the country -
Munich Pact
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. -
Repel Neutrality Acts
In May 1939, Roosevelt urged Congressional leaders to repeal the arms embargo of the earlier Neutrality Acts -
WW2 began
September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany -
Ending shipments
By the end of 1940, the United States had ended shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron ore to Japan -
Pearl Harbor
All these assumptions were wrong. As the bombs rained on PEARL HARBOR on the infamous morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941