2. Which of the following ideas BEST illustrates the United States commitment to isolation prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor?
A. To create a trade embargo of oil to Japan, which Japan needed to complete their Pacific empire
B. Signing of the Lend - Lease Bill, which allowed the US to give aid to Britain
C. Passage of the collective neutrality acts forbidding the US to sell arms to warring nations
D. To engage in the highly questionable destroyers-for-bases, that allowed the US to sell destroyers for
land claims