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.
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**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.
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**Question 3:** Which of the following best describes the principles of fascism?
**Response:** A dictatorship that promotes nationalism through military force.
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**Question 4:** An example of appeasement before World War 2 was:
**Response:** the Munich Conference.
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**Question 5:** In defeating Japan in World War 2, the United States used all of the following EXCEPT:
**Response:** A mainland invasion of Japan.
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**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.
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**Question 7:** With reference to World War 2, the term Holocaust refers to:
**Response:** Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jewish people.
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**Question 8:** Overall the Battle of Britain is considered:
**Response:** A Victory for Britain.
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**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).
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**Question 10:** The Manhattan Project's purpose was to:
**Response:** develop the atomic bomb.
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**Question 11:** World War 2 started when Germany invaded which country?
**Response:** Poland.
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**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.
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**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.
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**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.
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**Question 15:** Explain what the Marshall Plan intended to accomplish.
**Response:** rebuild war-ravaged Europe.
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