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Roosevelt advocates neutrality, in a nationwide radio address.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#September", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 4", "text": "November 4 – WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#November", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. 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Roosevelt decisively defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie, and becomes the United States' first and only third-term president.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#November", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 29", "text": "December 29 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become \"the great arsenal of democracy.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#December", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – During his State of the Union address, President of the United States Franklin D. 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Transmitted live over all four major national networks, it attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes. Within an hour, Congress agrees to the President's request for a United States declaration of war upon Japan, and he signs it at 4:10 p.m.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#December", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. 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The orders are worded to allow MacArthur to choose the exact moment of his departure; for various reasons, he will not leave until March 11.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#February", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which becomes responsible for the internment of Americans of Japanese and, to a lesser extent, German and Italian descent, many of them legal citizens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#March", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, \"The Italian navigator has landed in the new world\" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D. 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Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle of the French Resistance meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next stage of the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#January", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#August", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22–26 – WWII: Cairo Conference (\"Sextant\") – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Chairman of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan in the Pacific War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#November", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – WWII: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, to discuss war strategy. On November 30, they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#November", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U.S. President Franklin D. 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Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372287894#December", "title": "1943 in the United States", "revid": 1372287894, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 - WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is returned to the United States by the USS Iowa after completing his trip to the Cairo and Tehran Conferences.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#December", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January", "text": "Gen. Patrick J. Hurley visits Kabul as U.S. President Franklin D. 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