PPL in foreign relation commity can be learn from Lodge's speech about the various responses of senators to the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
The battle of the coral sea was the sea battle that stopped Japan's expansion and the first Carrier group battle. <u><em>The battle of Midway</em></u> could be an answer. This battle was the turning point in the war with Japan and let eventually to the liberation of Philippines.
The right answer is "B. Japan was prolonging a terrible and bloody war that had an inevitable outcome."
Throughout the text it is notable that the US is showing that the terrible consequences that the Japan was going through was because Japan was extending the war.
This is quite clear in the passage. "also, because of their leaders' refusal to accept the declaration of surrender that would honorably honor Japan's end to this useless war, we used our atomic bomb."
A. Declining interest in speculation in the stock market