3. Hitler even took German out of the League of Nations and formed an Alliance with the fascist dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini.
4. Adolf Hitler began to seize European territories that culminated with the invasion of Poland in 1939, and this resulted in the plunging of Europe into War.
5. Although the United States had declared itself neutral, once France fell to Germany in June of 1940, President Roosevelt determined to save England at all cost.
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7. Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. base of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which drew the United States into the war.
8. Winston Churchill dubbed WWII as the “unnecessary war” because if Britain and America had stood up to the dictators back in the 1930s, then the Second World War would never have happened.
9. Both countries had been preoccupied with recovering from the Great Depression.