The European Axis powers, which consisted of Germany at this time, invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. ... So, the Polish depended on the French and British, who had declared war on Germany, to aid Poland's counterattack against Germany. Yet, the French were only prepared for a defensive war and Britain had insufficient military equipment to aid the attack. ... An hour later, a message from Japan was decoded as instructing the Japanese embassy to deliver the fourteen part message at 1 p.m. ... Even though the band was interrupted in their song by Japanese planes, the crews did not mov...

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When the soldiers returned to the United States after World War 1. ... But perhaps the most important effect was the chaos in the banking system, as banks tried to collect on loans made to stock market investors whose holding were now worth little or noting at all. ... The monetary police tightened the gold outflow, mainly from the U.S. to France. ... The American depression produced severe effects overseas, especially in Europe were many countries had not fully recovered from World War 1. ... The world had been in shock and also it financial distress of there own from the effect of World War...

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When asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... As Richard Overy notes in The Road To War, this growing division from Europe was not mere selfishness. ... American investments in Germany increased by forty per cent between 1936 and 1940 America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had diminished during World War 1. ...

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Despite China's rejection and their resources being reduced,by the end of 1941 however, Japan had taken over French Indochina, formerly a french colonised region, in Southeast Asia. ... However on December 7th, 1941 at roughly 1:30 am,the US Army base in Washington decoded a message from Japan which implied war. ... The US army sent a last minute message to Lieutenant/General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel about the note, which did not arrive to Hawaii until after hours of the assault on Pearl Harbor. ... Even people who were merely 1/16 Japanese were placed in internment ...

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