On the Eastern Front,
a. at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000.
b. in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
c. German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944.
d. Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.
e. over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.
a
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A) proved the importance of the British army in the colonies B) raised the possibility of colonial armed resistance C) had little effect on Anglo-colonial relations D) had little support from colonial leaders E) left fifty-three Americans dead
The Roman praetorian guards were
A) elite troops given the task of protecting the emperor. B) mobile units meant to patrol the boundaries of the empire. C) often used to train the gladiators. D) cavalry used to spearhead military offensives. E) stationed along Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain.
Similar to evangelical preachers in the nineteenth century, northern abolitionists:
A) employed a confrontational and personal style. B) ignored the unconverted. C) treated their opponents with Christian charity. D) relied on calm, unemotional rhetoric.
In America the petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company, was owned by
A. Henry Bessemer. B. George Stephenson. C. John D. Rockefeller. D. Robert Owen. E. Andrew Carnegie.