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The United States places severe restrictions on the export of scrap metal, petroleum, and petroleum products, and it bans the export of aviation fuel and lubricating oil outside the Western Hemisphere; the measure is aimed chiefly at Japan, which relies heavily on American oil.
2 Aug.
Italian troops invade British Somaliland, occupying the capital, Berbera, on 19 August; British forces are evacuated.
6 Aug.
Germany orders the expulsion of all Jews from Krakow, Poland.
15 Aug.
The Minseito Party, the last remaining political party in Japan, dissolves itself, making the nation an authoritarian state.
17 Aug.
Germany announces a "total" naval blockade of the British Isles.
20 Aug.
Reflecting on the conduct of the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Battle of Britain, Churchill declares, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
24 Aug.
The first German bombing of London occurs.
25 Aug.
The RAF bombs Berlin...
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