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Explain in What Way A) the Neutrality Acts of 1935

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Explain in what way a) the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, b) the fall of France, c) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, and d) the attack on Pearl Harbor mark the most important turning points in American foreign policy from "storm-cellar isolationism" to full-fledged interventionism between 1935 and 1941.


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