| 1941
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| March
11 - Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt |
August
- Atlantic Charter Unveiled
September 1 - Jews order to wear yellow Star of David
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| December
7 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor |
December
8 - Noel Craven, from Weston, MO was the first man
at the Navy enlistment office in KC. 5 months later, as
a gunner's mate, he was killed in the Coral Sea Battle
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December
8 - Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United
States and Britain declare war on Japan
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December
11 - Germany declares war on the United States
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February
4 - The United Service Organization (USO) for Civil
Defense was established as a government agency Draft age
is widened to 18 to 45
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| October
- First B-25 bomber at North American Aviation in Kansas
City |
