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Major Events
Chapter 34 · 1931–1941
Japan invades Manchuria
1931
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1933
Neutrality Acts passed by Congress
1935-37
Rome-Berlin Axis formed
1936
Japan launches full invasion of China
1937
Munich Conference; Britain and France appease Hitler over the Sudetenland
1938
Germany invades Poland; World War II begins in Europe
1939 (Sept)
Neutrality Act revised to allow cash-and-carry arms sales
1939
Selective Training and Service Act (first peacetime draft) and the destroyers-for-bases deal
1940
Lend-Lease Act passed
1941 (Mar)
FDR and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter
1941 (Aug)
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1941 (Dec 7)
U.S. declares war on Japan; Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
1941 (Dec 8-11)