The first rocket was launched into space by whom?
A) The United States launched Explorer I in 1958.
B) The French launched a rocket De Gaulle in 1957.
C) The Chinese launched the first Rocket Ming I into space in 1960.
D) The British launched Churchill I into space in 1963.
E) The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957.
E
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Which one of the following statements is true of BOTH Irish and German immigrants to America in the early nineteenth century?
A) They tended to move into America's large cities. B) They held fast to their strong ethnic identity. C) They quickly became actively involved in American politics. D) Most were fleeing famine in their home country.
The policy known as Ostpolitik
a. almost led to East German absorption of West Germany. b. was designed by Charles De Gaulle. c. was designed by Conrad Adenauer. d. increased cultural, personal, and economic relations between West and East Germany. e. was an attempt by East Germany to unite with West Germany.
Which of the following was a consequence of deindustrialization? a. Blue-collar workers were transferred by corporations into higher-paying, service-oriented positions. b. Many blue collar workers lost their jobs in the automobile and steel industries and found that the new jobsbeing created were in the lower paying service sector
c. The salaries for traditionally female jobs in the service sector of the economy rose substantially. d. Minimum-wage and part-time jobs became more and more scarce, putting an additional burden on retireesand students.
Enlightened absolutism
a. was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations. b. was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. c. was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev. d. was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages. e. best describes the British government in the eighteenth century.