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)