How did the United States defeat Japan?
A) They built up a new Pacific navy.
B) They cut off the flow of supplies from the conquered lands of the "co-prosperity sphere" to the Japanese homeland, using submarines.
C) They used surface fleets to "island-hop" to bases within aerial range of the Japanese home islands.
D) They reduced Japanese cities to ashes using giant bombers.
E) All of these
E
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a. African Americans were able to keep their low-paying jobs in northern factories by accepting lower wages than other workers would accept. b. The poor survived better than those in other social classes because they knew how to exist in poverty. c. The middle class fared well as they were offered and accepted charity more quickly than did members of other classes. d. The well-to-do were unaffected by the Great Depression compared to the lower and middle classes.
Indian nationalism
A. was initially founded by people who were educated, socially elite urbanites. B. was sharply divided, Muslim against Buddhist, from the beginning. C. had an articulate peasant, Sutan Sjahrir, as its first prominent leader. D. had no organization until the arrival of Gandhi in 1931. E. was fomented by peasants dissatisfied with the Punjab.
The event that swung opinion in the East against the Sioux and all the Plains Indians was the
A. Battle of Little Big Horn. B. Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. C. Sand Creek Massacre. D. Great Sioux War of 1866-1868.
Which invention changed American social and economic life the most?
a. the phonograph b. motion pictures c. refrigeration d. the automobile