Why did the Iranian government eventually decided to release American hostages in 1981?
A. America's surrender of the Shah
B. economic necessity for its military
C. America's severing of ties to Israel
D. popular Iranian support for the release
Answer: B
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The red scare of 1919?1920 was provoked by
a. the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities. b. the strict enforcement of prohibition laws. c. evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation. d. the association of labor unrest with the fear of Bolshevik revolution. e. the infiltration of Communist agents into the labor movement.
The greatest consequence of World War II for American race relations was
a. the tensions in wartime factories between blacks and whites. b. the wartime integration of the armed forces. c. African Americans' experience of more positive European racial attitudes. d. the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to northern and western cities. e. the Atlantic Charter declaring that the war was being fought for democracy and freedom.
President Wilson's response to an NAACP-sponsored parade asking him to do something about lynching and other violence against African Americans was
A. an encouragement to endure hardship and hope for a better future. B. an effort to advance a new constitutional amendment on their behalf. C. to promise immediate action. D. silence.
The Dartmouth College Supreme Court decision
A. established the right of judicial review. B. upheld the sanctity of contracts. C. allowed the state of New Hampshire to void Dartmouth College's charter. D. overturned the Court's earlier decision in Sturgis v. Crowninshield (1819). E. None of the above