1.  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

2.  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)

3.  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