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As the 1930s drew to a close, the United States stood by as Hitler began his expansionist push eastward. Congress and the president reasserted American neutrality as Hitler moved troops into the Rhineland in 1936, marched on Austria in March 1938, and seized the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia the following September. Hitler violated the Munich Accord, invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin later that year. As German soldiers invaded Poland, the United States remained on the sidelines. As World War II began, Roosevelt declared, "This nation will remain a neutral nation," but he called for a revision of the Neutrality Acts to allow the United States to sell England and its Allies weapons and ammunition. Skeptically, Congress allowed them to purchase the arms on a cash-andcarry basis.
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