Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act in May of 1941, shortly after Nazi Germany began occupying France. Support for the Allied cause had been increasing among the American public throughout the preceeding year. The Lend-Lease Act was the first offical support for the Allied cause from the American government, in the form of direct lending of war materiel. The program continued throughout the war, even after the United States officially entered combat on the Allied side.

The Civil War saw a peculiar nature to its naval battles, as the Union held a firm blockade around all Southern ports, and held more ships. Nonetheless, a consistent fleet of small "blockade runners" allowed the Confederacy to keep the U.S. Navy busy throughout the war. In 1862, the Confederacy acquired a stranded U.S. vessel, the Merrimack, gave it an iron plate shell and battering ram, and rechristened it the Virginia. This new "ironside" wreaked havoc for a few months, until the U.S. developed the all iron Monitor, which then sought out its iron counterpart. Their naval battle on March 8, 1862 at Hampton Roads, VA, proved a loud and famous draw, but also showed that the era of wooden sailing ships was over.

Planes first became usable after the Wright Brothers' flight in 1903, and were instantly sought for military use. By World War I, all the major countries involved were using planes as military weapons in a number of ways. Despite America also using planes in World War I, the pilots were member of the Army, specifically the Air Corps. This model held until the Second World War, when an increased use of planes showed a need for better organization of their use. In the National Security Act of 1947, the United States Air Force was officially created as a separate branch of the armed forces.

The Pacific Theater was one of the largest extended battlefields in world history. Primarily fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan, as their European allies were occupied in Europe, the battles in the Pacific were largely naval, and in particular featured a great number of aircraft carriers and airplanes, rather than infantry engagements or even tank battles. The Pacific Theater of the war ended fighting when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first use of nuclear weapons.

The phrase "peace with honor" became famous almost immediately after the Vietnam War ended. President Richard Nixon first spoke it in an address to the nation upon the offical signing of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended the Vietnam War. The highly controversial war became a key element of the 1972 Election, with Nixon eventually promising to end the war as soon as possible. On January 23, 1973, shortly after being inaugurated for a second term, Nixon uttered these words to the nation to let them know he had negotiated a peace with North Vietnam.

From 1948, when the State of Israel was first established, until 1978, four large scale wars occurred between Israel and various Arab alliances, typically led by Egypt. By the 1970s, with Cold War tensions driving foreign policy decisions, American leaders sought a deeper peace in the Middle East. In 1977, President Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David in Maryland. There, Carter helped negotiate a framework for a peace agreement between the two nations.

The Atlantic Charter was signed in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. It defined the allied goals for the structure and division of the post-war world. It was an idealistic document that aimed to ensure no territorial changes against the wishes of the people and the restoration of national self-government to those deprived of it. The Charter held significant influence in the break-up of European colonial ownership following the end of the war. 

The Second World War quickly became a conflict between two large groups of nations joined by treaties. While the U.S. remained a neutral nation in principle until attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, the Roosevelt Administration was assisting the Allied Nations of Great Britain and France. After declaring war on Japan, the U.S. also declared war on the other Axis Powers of Germany and Italy, while fighting allies like Romania and Bulgaria later in the war. The Soviet Union and the United States became Allies during the War, although the seeds of Cold War antagonism underlined their alliance.

The Yalta Conference was convened by Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, the respective leaders of America, Britain, and the Soviet Union.  These three nations were the leading powers of the Allied forces in World War II.  Adolf Hitler was still leader of Germany in February of 1945, and still fighting the Allies, so all answer choices with Konrad Adenauer should be eliminated.

The Axis Powers were, broadly speaking, America's opponents in World War II, but their exact allies were not always straightforward. Upon entering the war in December of 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Romania, Hungary, and other Allied affiliated states. Those countries possessed by Germany were in a different condition, as the German speaking Austrians and Czechs were largely affilliated with the Nazis. France, however, saw a "Free French" army and shadow government form, which was a determined ally of the United States.