During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved
A. the illegal sale of timber rights.
B. political blackmail.
C. transfers of national oil reserves.
D. the secret sale of armaments to Nicaragua.
E. graft in federal construction contracts.
C
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a. the Parisian professor Siger of Brabant. b. the Franciscan monk Roger Bacon. c. the Nestorian scholar Rabban Bar Sauma. d. the Dominican monk Thomas Aquinas.
Who of the following contributed most to the lessening of tensions with East Germany?
a. Konrad Adenauer b. Ludwig Erhard c. Willy Brandt d. Wilhelm Pieck e. Helmut Kohl
In the Cuban Missile Crisis,
A. the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962. B. Turkey threatened to have the United States destroy Cuba if the Soviets attacked Turkey. C. the United States president threatened to shoot down any Soviet planes bringing nuclear weapons to Cuba and announced a total "air blockade." D. President Johnson sent American troops to Cuba. E. Fidel Castro was exiled to Monte Carlo.
What did the Spartans do to the neighboring peoples rather than form an overseas colony?
a. sell them to the Persians b. kill them and took over their land c. combined with them to form a state d. enslaved them to work the farmland e. intermarried with them