Friday, November 6, 2009

THE AMERICAS-1940

President Franklin D Roosevelt, photographed in 1940 during his victorious election campaign.
The Americas!
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11/05/1940President Roosevelt expresses his dismay to King Leopold of Belgium about the German invasion.
30/05/1940Roosevelt asks Congress for considerable funds to strengthen the US Armed forces.
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10/06/1940President Roosevelt announces a shift from neutrality to "non-belligerency," while condemning Germany and Italy and promising material aid to both Britain and France.
15/06/1940Roosevelt assures Reynaud that US aid will be redoubled.
28/06/1940The Alien Registration Act (the Smith Act) passed by the US Congress requires aliens to register and be fingerprinted. The Act makes it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US government.
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05/07/1940President Roosevelt lays down ‘five fundamentals of freedom’: freedom from fear, of information, of religion, of expression, and from want.
20/07/1940President Roosevelt signs the 'Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act'. This was the first step in preparing America for war against either Germany or Japan, or both.
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02/08/1940Montreal mayor Camillien Houde publicly urges Quebecers to not sign up for national registration for war duty.
05/08/1940U.S. and Vichy France reach Green-Slade-Robert Agreement, an understanding on the status of French warships and aircraft in the French West Indies. Montreal mayor Camillien Houde is arrested, and charged under the Defence of Canada Regulations. He is imprisoned at Camp Petawawa in Ontario until the end of the war.
13/08/1940Roosevelt agrees to supply 50 First World War destroyers to Britain in return for the lease of naval bases in the Caribbean. Colonel E.L.M. Burns proposes developing a Canadian parachute force. The idea is rejected by the Director of Military Operations in headquarters.
17/08/1940Duke of Windsor sworn in as governor-general of Bermuda.
21/08/1940Leon Trotsky is assassinated by a Stalinist agent while in exile in Mexico City.
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03/09/1940The US Congress finally agrees to the handing over of 50 old destroyers in return for 99 year leases of British Naval bases in Antigua, St. Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana the Bahamas, Jamaica and Argentia.
12/09/1940Canada's cabinet introduces Order In Council P.C. 4751, giving Canadian authorities power to imprison disobedient foreign seamen from non-Canadian ships in Canadian ports.
16/09/1940President Roosevelt signs US Conscription Bill.
20/09/1940The Canadian War Technical and Scientific Development Committee approves a request by Frederick Banting to begin bacterial warfare research.
25/09/1940The US cryptanalyst, Harry L Clark, discovers the key to the Japanese top secret codes, allowing the US to read Japanese diplomatic, naval and military to top secret coded traffic.
26/09/1940US President Franklin Roosevelt imposes an embargo on the export of aviation fuel, scrap iron, and steel to Japan, citing American defence needs.
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12/10/1940President Roosevelt in a fireside chat suggests the drafting of 18 and 19 year old men.
15/10/194016 million Americans already registered for National Service.
29/10/1940Conscription begins in the U.S. It is the first military draft to occur during peacetime in American history.
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05/11/1940Roosevelt is elected as President of USA for an unprecedented third term with 54 percent of the popular vote. He defeats Republican Wendell L. Willke.
12/11/1940Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken.
19/11/1940The Canadian government approves initiation of mass production of war bacteria.
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23/12/1940Lord Halifax appointed British ambassador to Washington.
29/12/1940Roosevelt tells Americans: "We must be the great arsenal of the democracies."

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