 Kunyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kukundikana kweSangano reMarudzi kana kuti United States kudzivisa kupinda kweItaly muEthiopia kwakasimbisa Japan neGermany kuti vatevere vavariro dzavo dzenharaunda. Pashure pechiitiko cheMarco Polo Bridge, Japan yakapinda muChina muna July 1937, ichitora guta guru reChina reNanjing kana kuti Nanking gore risati rapera. Kuurayana kweNanking nechiitiko cheUSS PanayVose vakatsamwisa vanhu vokuAmerica, vazhinji vavo vakanga vane ukama neChina nemhaka yemabasa etsika akadai seNyika Yakanaka, asi Mitemo Yokusava Nedivi Rokutsigira yakadzivisa kutengeswa kwezvombo kuChina. Sechiratidziro chesimba rinopfuurira rokuparadzanisa, Ludlow Amendment, iyo ingadai yakada referendamu yenyika nokuda kwokuzivisa hondo ipi neipi, yakangokundwa zvishoma muImba. Roosevelt akawana ngwariro yenyika yose nehurukuro yake yaOctober 1937 yeKuiswa Kwokuzvimiririra, iyo yakadana kuiswa kwavose voga kwamarudzi ose mukurwisana nedenda rokusateerera mutemo kwenyika. Panguva ino haana kutsvaka zvirango kurwisa Japan, asi akatanga kuronga kwokuronga kuvaka ngarava dzomugungwa dzomunzvimbo refu dzaigona kuvhara Japan. 