Question

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, United States increased defense expenditures, instituted the peacetime draft, and passed the Lend-Lease Act, indicating that the government
a. planned to declare war on Japan. Eliminate
b. was planning to defend Pearl Harbor.
c. was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.
d. had fully recovered from the effects of the Great Depression.

Answer 1

C: was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.

The United States was neutral during the start of the war because it wished to follow an isolationist policy to keep it out of the war, but it also didn't want to just turn its back on its allies.  The way Roosevelt got around this was to authorize the Lend-Lease Act which allowed the United States to lend out or lease military equipment to aid it's allies.  

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the United States increased defense expenditures, instituted the peacetime draft, and passed the Lend-Lease Act, indicating that the government was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.

Although the United States decided to maintain a foreign policy of neutrality and did not want to intervene in the European issues, it was worried about the permanent growing of Hitler's Germany in the European scene. That is why the US government passed the Lend-Lease Act, allowing Great Britain to borrow weapons, and the US increased expenditures in weaponry. It knew something was brewing in Hitler's mind.