A small group of 360 Spartan soldiers held the Persian army of over 10,000 at a mountain pass called __________
A) Marathon
B) Thermopylae
C) Salamis
D) Ionia
Answer: B
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A) increased 25 percent. B) increased 50 percent. C) doubled. D) tripled.
Which of the following is true of President Johnson's response to the August 1964 report that U.S. destroyers had been attacked twice by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin? a. Even though evidence of the second attack was questionable, President Johnson ordered retaliatory airstrikes against North Vietnam
b. Johnson suggested the use of tactical nuclear weapons against strategic targets in North Vietnam. c. Johnson expressed grave fears that the incident would bring the United States and the Soviet Union intoarmed conflict. d. The incident convinced Johnson that North Vietnam was being supplied with sophisticated military equipmentby the Soviet Union.
By the year 2000, the poverty rate for African Americans had __________
A) risen to nearly 40 percent B) fallen to an all-time low of 22 percent C) stayed the same as 1993 levels demonstrating the negative impact of President Clinton’s social policies D) declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration
Rudolph Valentino soared to fame as a male "sex symbol" with his
a. slapstick comedy. b. aviation skills. c. athletic style in baseball. d. role in The Sheik, set in a fanciful Arabian desert.