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World War Two began in Asia and Europe in the 1930s as Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned on keeping the U.S. out of the war while secretly providing weapons and ships to democratic Great Britain without Congress knowing, helping it fight authoritarian German and Japanese forces. With conflict raging off both coasts, voters reelected Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term. Realizing the U.S. military was too small and outdated to fight a modern war, he authorized the first peacetime draft and the construction of new ships, aircraft, and other materiel. After the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war in December 1941.
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