What did images such as this one of a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor tower come to represent to many Americans in the late 1970s?
A) the promise of a cleaner environment
B) a way out of the energy crisis
C) American power and leadership
D) danger to the health of nearby residents
E) the overreach of government regulation
D
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Use of the initiative allowed reformers to __________
A) become directly involved in labor negotiations B) propose legislation directly to the electorate C) impeach legislators who were unresponsive to change D) run third-party candidates and receive federal funds
Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War because he
a. wanted to support the Bohemian Protestant nobility. b. wanted to expand Swedish power in the Baltics and feared a Catholic Germany would limit his plans. c. wanted to prevent Russia from coming to the aid of the Germans. d. was trying to form a trade agreement with the Dutch Republic, and it supported the Protestant faction. e. wanted to suppress ideas of absolutism under the Holy Roman emperor.
The German economy was stabilized in the mid-1920s as a result of
a. an ending of reparation payments. b. military victory against France in the Ruhr. c. the voluntary return of Germany's colonies by Japan. d. the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine from France. e. the Dawes Plan, which reduced reparation payments.
What event was held in the attempt to unite Swiss and German Protestants?
A. the Diet of Worms B. the Diet of Augsburg C. the Marburg Colloquy D. the peasants' revolt