Action/Reaction Japanese invade

Manchuria, China (1931)

WWI Allies “default” on their debt payments to the US.

Italy invades Ethiopia, Hitler re-arms Germany,

Spanish Civil War (36-39)

Hoover – Stimson Doctrine (1932)

Johnson Debt Default Act (1934)

Neutrality Acts ‘35 and ‘37

The War Clouds are Gathering

Japanese invade China (1937)

German invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia (1938-39)

German invasion of Poland – WWII begins

Fall of France (1940)

FDR’s “Quarantine Speech”

Neutrality Act 1939 – “cash and carry”

Destroyer Bases Deal (1940)

Burke-Wadsworth Act (1940)

Are we Neutral or Aren’t we??? Axis Alliance is

formed (1940) Germany, Italy, and Japan

U-boats sinking convoy ships in the N. Atlantic (1940-41)

HR 1776 – “Lend lease” bill is signed into law

FDR’s “Garden hose speech”

USS Greer, and USS Reuben James incidents