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Before WWII California passed the Alien Land Law, which prohibited all Asian immigrants- including Japanese to own land or property.
 * 1)    	In 1939 the U.S. declared neutrality which is later on the Neutrality Act is signed and allows the US to send aid to Britain and France.
 * 2)        In 1940, The Alien Registration Act,known as the Smith Act, was passed by the U.S. Congress. This act required all aliens to register with the federal government and be fingerprinted.
 * The public opinion in USA as late november 1941, a full two years in the european war, indicanted the American public was about evenly split on whether to support Britain or stay neutral.
 * In the United States many persons wished for the US to remain neutral. These included members of the bund, a large social organization mainly of German-Americans (he largest ethnic group in the USA was and is German-Americans).
 * The most popular public figure in America was Charles Lindberg, the flier. He was an advcae for things German and a big admirer of their airforce.The unemployment problem ended in the US with the beginning of WW2, when stepped up wartime production created millions ofnew jobs and the draft pulled young men out.