Chapter 36: New Conflagrations: World War II and the Cold War

Battles in Asia and the Pacific . U.S. support of the Allies before Pearl Harbor . Roosevelt sold and then "loaned" arms and war material to the British . Later supplied the Soviets and the Chinese. Japanese expansion continued into southeast Asia: Indochina, 1940-1941 . United States responded by freezing Japanese assets, implementing oil embargo ................
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