Diplomatic history seeks to explain international affairs by
a. using quantitative methodologies that can be repeated.
b. (C) stressing the role that countries and individual leaders and diplomats played.
c. emphasizing socioeconomic factors, including classes.
d. arguing that war and conflict are not inevitable, but are the result of defective
institutions.
b
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A. global economic dependence B. increasing rates of capital investment and savings C. slow rates of capital investment and savings D. the status of the United States as the world’s largest debtor
Which of the following arguments was key to the NAACP’s case in Sweatt v. Painter?
a. One must look only at physical facilities when evaluating educational quality. b. Education quality is a factor of equal access and equal opportunity. c. One must look beyond physical facilities when evaluating educational quality. d. Educational quality cannot be determined by equal access or equal opportunity alone.