Here are the responses for each of the questions based on historical context:
Question 1: Explain the main idea that contributed to Congress passing the Neutrality Acts in 1935, 1937, and 1939?
Response: Most Americans didn't want to get involved in European affairs.
Question 2: Explain the purpose of the United States' lend-lease program.
Response: The program allowed the United States to provide weapons to Great Britain.
Question 3: Which of the following best describes the principles of fascism?
Response: A dictatorship that promotes nationalism through military force.
Question 4: An example of appeasement before World War 2 was:
Response: the Munich Conference.
Question 5: In defeating Japan in World War 2, the United States used all of the following EXCEPT:
Response: A mainland invasion of Japan.
Question 6: Explain the reason the Yalta Conference is considered the beginning of the Cold War.
Response: Joseph Stalin expanded communist control over East Europe.
Question 7: With reference to World War 2, the term Holocaust refers to:
Response: Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jewish people.
Question 8: Overall the Battle of Britain is considered:
Response: A Victory for Britain.
Question 9: Pick the answer that explains how the Western Allies responded to Germany's invasion of Russia.
Response: They sent supplies and intelligence information to the USSR (Russia).
Question 10: The Manhattan Project's purpose was to:
Response: develop the atomic bomb.
Question 11: World War 2 started when Germany invaded which country?
Response: Poland.
Question 12: Pick the answer that best described the key to US success at the Battle of Midway.
Response: Having cracked the main Japanese naval communications code.
Question 13: Which language was used by the US military to encode messages that were never deciphered by the enemy during World War 2?
Response: Navajo.
Question 14: Which of the following was the most important source of Soviet resentment about Allied conduct of World War 2?
Response: the slowness of the Allies in opening a major second front.
Question 15: Explain what the Marshall Plan intended to accomplish.
Response: rebuild war-ravaged Europe.
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