All of the following is true about the Cuban missile crisis, EXCEPT:
a. The Cuban missile crisis paled in comparison to the crisis in Berlin in August 1961.
b. An American U-2 spy plane discovered medium range nuclear missile sites on the island.
c. The Soviet Union and the U.S. removed missiles from Cuba and Turkey respectively, thus taking the world back from the brink of war.
d. Throughout the crisis, the Strategic Air Command kept nuclear-armed B-52 bombers in the air.
A
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a. They were preoccupied with ritual duties. b. They were militarily weak. c. They were never interested in political power. d. They relied on others to handle this while they focused on hunting and feasting.
African culture was completely wiped out among seventeenth-century African Americans.
a. true b. false
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:
a. Catholics and racial minorities b. men from the most radical wing of the Democratic party c. men with new ideas and fresh thinking d. old-school politicians from the Truman administration e. his fraternity buddies from Harvard
Why didn't Great Britain support the rest of the European continent in their Latin American policies?
a. Great Britain realized that independent Latin American countries offered better economic opportunities for British products. b. Great Britain didn't want to lose its colonies in Africa, so it opposed any independent colonies in Latin America. c. Great Britain hoped to re-colonize most of the Latin American nations once the Spanish and Portuguese were kicked out. d. Great Britain had learned from the Revolutionary War with the United States that colonial wars were expensive and impossible to win. e. Great Britain had observed the economic and political successes of the United States and respected Latin American nations' rights to the same.