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(a) The USA maintained a policy of isolation in the inter-war period. In the early years of the Second World War, President Roosevelt kept America aloof from the war despite overtures made by Winston Churchill. (b) Under the lend-lease agreement signed between Britain and USA in 1941, a large number of American war planes, ships and other de fence equipments were given to the British with the understanding that they would pay for them after the war. (c) Relations between USA and Japan began to marched when Japan attacked China. When France fell into German hands, the Japanese used their diplomatic leverage to get the Vichy government to hand over French Indo-China to it. This alarmed the Americans who imposed a naval blockade in 194\ which prevented oil supplies from reaching Japan. (d) On 7th December 1941, without a formal declaration of war, 335 Japanese planes bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. The US base was reduced to a ruin. USA lost 350 planes, 3700 men, 5 battleships. Two days later America entered the Second World War which changed the tide of the war in favour of the allies.
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