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State of Emergency

United States of America · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1941

Franklin Delano Roosevelt27 May 1941

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Roosevelt declares a state of emergency, the Government assumes wide-ranging control of the economy & pledges to resist German aggression

Names involved

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Provenance

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