Perang Dunia II: Perbedaan antara revisi

Sepanjang periode ini, Amerika Serikat yang netral melakukan sejumlah hal untuk membantu Tiongkok dan Sekutu Baratnya. Pada bulan November 1939, [[Undang-Undang Netralitas 1930-an|Undang-Undang Netralitas]] diamendemen untuk memungkinkan pembelian [[Beli dan angkut (Perang Dunia II)|"beli dan angkut"]] oleh Sekutu.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overy|first=Richard|coauthor=Wheatcroft, Andrew|title=The Road to War|url=https://archive.org/details/roadtowarrevised00over|year=1999|publisher=Penguin|location=London|isbn=0-14-028530-X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roadtowarrevised00over/page/n357 328]–330|edition=Revised and updated}}</ref> Tahun 1940, setelah pencaplokan Paris oleh Jerman, ukuran [[Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat]] [[Undang-Undang Angkatan Laut Dua Samudra|meningkat pesat]] dan, setelah serbuan Jepang ke Indochina, Amerika Serikat memberlakukan [[embargo]] besi, baja, dan barang-barang mekanik terhadap Jepang.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Morison|first=Samuel Eliot|title=History of United States Naval Operations in World War II|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2002|isbn=0-252-07065-8|page=60}}</ref> Pada bulan September, Amerika Serikat menyetujui [[Perjanjian Destroyers for Bases|penukaran kapal penghancur AS dengan pangkalan Britania Raya]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maingot|first=Anthony P.|title=The United States and the Caribbean: Challenges of an Asymmetrical Relationship|url=https://archive.org/details/unitedstatescari0000main_s1y8|publisher=Westview Press|year=1994|isbn=0-8133-2241-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/unitedstatescari0000main_s1y8/page/52 52]}}</ref> Tetap saja, mayoritas rakyat Amerika Serikat menentang intervensi militer langsung apapun terhadap konflik ini sampai tahun 1941.<ref>{{Cite journal|first=Hadley|last=Cantril|title=America Faces the War: A Study in Public Opinion|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_public-opinion-quarterly_1940-09_4_3/page/390|journal=The Public Opinion Quarterly|volume=4|issue=3|date=September 1940|page=390}}</ref> <!-- REFERENCE PREDATES THIS CLAIM -->

 

 

Blok Poros meluas bulan November 1940 ketika [[Hongaria]], Slowakia, dan [[Rumania]] bergabung dengan Pakta Tiga Pihak ini.<ref name="Tripartite Pact">{{Cite book|title=Oxford Companion to World War II|editor1-first=I. C. B.|editor1-last=Dear|editor2-first=M. R. D|editor2-last=Foot|chapter=Tripartite Pact|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2002|isbn=0-19-860446-7|page=877}}</ref> Rumania akan memberi [[Rumania pada Perang Dunia II|kontribusi besar]] terhadap perang Poros melawan Uni Soviet, sebagian untuk merebut kembali [[pendudukan Soviet di Bessarabia dan Bukovina Utara|wilayah yang diserahkan kepada Soviet]], sebagian lagi demi memenuhi keinginan pemimpinnya, [[Ion Antonescu]], untuk melawan komunisme.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Dennis|last=Deletant|chapter=Romania|editor1-first=I. C. B.|editor1-last=Dear|editor2-first=M. R. D|editor2-last=Foot|year=2002|title=Oxford Companion to World War II|pages=745–46|isbn=0-19-860446-7}}</ref> Pada bulan Oktober 1940, [[Perang Yunani-Italia|Italia menyerbu Yunani]], tetapi beberapa hari kemudian digagalkan dan dipukul sampai Albania yang berakhir dengan kebuntuan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clogg|first=Richard|title=A Concise History of Greece|url=https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000clog|page=[https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000clog/page/118 118]|year=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-80872-3}}</ref> Bulan Desember 1940, pasukan Persemakmuran Britania Raya memulai serangan balasan terhadap [[Operasi Compass|pasukan Italia di Mesir]] dan [[Kampanye Afrika Timur (Perang Dunia II)#Serangan balasan Sekutu|Afrika Timur Italia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Andrew|first=Stephen|title=The Italian Army 1940–45 (2): Africa 1940–43|publisher=Osprey Publishing|year=2001|isbn=1-85532-865-8|pages=9–10}}</ref> Pada awal 1941, dengan pasukan Italia dipukul hingga Libya oleh Persemakmuran, Churchill memerintahkan [[Operasi Lustre|pengerahan tentara dari Afrika untuk membantu Yunani]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=David|title=The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=0-7146-5205-9|pages=64–65}}</ref> [[Regia Marina|Angkatan Laut Italia]] juga menderita kekalahan besar, dengan Angkatan Laut Kerajaan membuat tiga kapal perang Italia tidak berfungsi melalui [[Pertempuran Taranto|serangan kapal induk di Taranto]], dan menetralisasi beberapa kapal perang lain pada [[Pertempuran Tanjung Matapan]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Ashley|title=The British Empire and the Second World War|url=https://archive.org/details/britishempiresec00jack|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|year=2006|isbn=1-85285-417-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/britishempiresec00jack/page/106 106]}}</ref>

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