Fair Employement Practice Committee (FEPC) is set up to reduce discrimination in government employment and in defense industries.

Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded by Germany. British troops enter Belgium. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill

British Intelligence decodes the first German Enigma messages. Most of Germany's high-level military messages were encoded using a cipher machine

The United States Congress amends the Neutrality Acts to favor Britain and France, lifting the embargo and authorizing cash and

Albert Einstein and others inform FDR of the possibility of creating an atomic bomb.

In Poland, the process of moving the Jewish population into ghettos begins.

Hitler's peace offer, based on a German victory in Poland, is rejected by Britain and France.

FDR calls for a special session of Congress to repeal the Neutrality Acts. He argues the United States could preserve