The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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The end of the Cold War has
a. led to the end of "history." b. opened a new era in history. c. made both the United States and Russia irrelevant on the world stage. d. been predicted, but it has not yet occurred.
How did the United States gain control over the territory from the east to the west coast in the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
As proof that the United States did not require "permission slips" from other nations to act in her own self interest, conservatives in the United States in the early 2000s pointed to the
A) patent inadequacy of the UN's response to various conflicts in the recent past, such as doing nothing in the nineties in Bosnia while innocents were warehoused in modern day concentration camps within the very borders of a sanctimonious and disinterested Europe. B) general inadequacy of international bodies that did not act strongly and decisively to quell threats to world peace, as proved by the failure of the League of Nations to halt fascist and expansionist aggression by Germany, Italy, and Japan in the thirties. C) unconscionable fact that the UN Human Rights Commission had been taken over by repressive nations who routinely practiced summary imprisonment and brutal torture, and that a poster child of this repression, Libya, was absurdly elected by these violent nations to head the UN Human Rights Commission in 2002. D) lack of energetic action by the UN, which had allowed the brutal and abject slaughter of many hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Rwanda by machete and burning fueled by ethnic hatred in the nineties, and which could have been avoided had the international community shown concern. E) None of these
The key figure behind the creation of the Democratic Party in 1826, who headed up the Bucktail political faction a few years earlier, was
a. John Quincy Adams. b. Martin Van Buren. c. Henry Clay. d. DeWitt Clinton.