The document provides a timeline of key events from 1931 to 1941 that led up to the US entry into World War 2. It describes the rise of militarism in Germany, Italy and Japan in the early 1930s and their subsequent invasions and expansionism. It also outlines America's initial isolationist policies under acts like the Neutrality Acts as well as FDR's efforts to provide more support to allies through cash and carry and eventually lend lease aid. Major events include the German invasion of Poland in 1939, leading Britain and France to declare war, and the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that prompted America to declare war on Japan and Germany.