All of the following actions were taken by the federal government to prepare for World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor except __________.

Before Pearl Harbor, the federal government strengthened the military, introduced the first peacetime draft in U.S. history, and supplied Allied nations through programs such as Lend-Lease. It did not order covert bombing strikes on Axis nations; the United States had not entered the war. Therefore, the exception is “ordering covert bombing strikes on Axis nations.”

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