At the middle of the nineteenth century, why were many Southern plantations prospering?
A) growing diversification in farming and production of natural resources
B) acquisition of new territory by the United States
C) continual importation of African slaves
D) high prices for cotton on the world market
D
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All of the following were territories held under the Andalusian Caliphate EXCEPT
a. Tunisia b. Spain c. Crete d. Sardinia e. Sicily
The original purpose of NATO was to create a
A) mutual defense pact against the Soviet Union. B) free trade zone between Western Europe and the United States. C) ten-year plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe. D) financial mechanism to stabilize currency exchange rates of the Western nations.
As the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in 1954, President Eisenhower
a. agreed to send small military units to aid the French. b. relied on the advice of Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles. c. sought a compromise settlement at Geneva. d. refused to permit any American military involvement. e. threatened nuclear attack on the Vietnamese communists.
What made the last few months of the war especially difficult for the Nazi High Command?
a) Due to his drug use and stresses of the war, Hitler grew increasingly unstable, and his commands became erratic and unintelligible. b) Hitler was closed off in the Berlin bunker, which made it difficult for his staff to communicate with him. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse. c) Hitler sank into a deep depression after Mussolini’s death and refused to see anyone. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse. d) Hitler pretended that all was going well with the war, which confounded his staff, who did not know how to tell him the truth. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse.