Why did President Nixon decide to implement his détente policy?
A. to create an alliance of other Western states with nuclear capabilities
B. to increase the American military advantage over the Soviet Union
C. to take advantage of a rift between the Soviet Union and China
D. to break up an emerging alliance between worldwide Communist states
Answer: C
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a) to attack innocent whites to force their involvement. b) to attack only when attacked first. c) non-violent resistance. d) ignoring the situation until it went away. e) to stage carefully orchestrated riots to guarantee maximum television coverage.
Which of the following statements accurately brings out the difference between the Incas and Aztecs?
A. The Aztecs exercised wide, direct central control; the Incas seldom used enforced resettlement. B. The Inca survived in a high-altitude environment; the Aztecs survived in a low-altitude environment. C. TheAztecs put a god of war at the center of their pantheon; the Incas worshiped the sun and beneficent energy as their central god. D. The Inca drew and carved vivid, naturalistic designs and sculpture; the Aztecs tended to the abstract and unrealistic.
One of the main objectives of the aristocratic founders of Carolina was to
a. provide a utopian settlement for reformed convicts. b. grow foodstuffs to provision sugar plantations in the West Indies. c. provide a measure of religious tolerance to Catholics and Protestant dissenters. d. establish sugar plantations without resorting to slave labor. e. develop strong trade between the southern and northern colonies.
Northerners supported which of the following?
A) public education and temperance laws. B) the rights of free labor. C) policies favoring industrial growth. D) all of the above