Maximiliano Hernández Martínez overthrew the democratically elected Arturo Araujo because he
A) scorned wealthy landowners and tried to confiscate their estates.
B) favored modest reforms like limited land redistribution and women's rights.
C) threatened to disband the military and replace it with a civilian police force.
D) refused to collaborate with the United States military.
B
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Which of the following statements reflects the influence of industrialization on warfare in the early twentieth century?
A) Malnutrition no longer plagued soldiers on the battlefield. B) Disease was no longer a major threat for armies on the move. C) Civilians on the home front were unaffected by wars abroad. D) Weapons were mass-produced on an unprecedented scale.
After China's failure against the British in 1840, Lin Zexu and other officials argued that China, at the very least, needed the same kind of __________.
a. Queen. b. Naval ships. c. Economic policies. d. High-quality opium.
Ottoman religious policy
a. applied Islamic law to everyone in the empire. b. required all Shi'ite Muslims to convert to Sunni Islam. c. was more tolerant of Hindu beliefs than the Mughal Dynasty. d. had converted all of its European subjects except Serbs and Greeks to Islam by 1700. e. placed the members of each religious group under a patriarch, priest, or grand rabbi, who served in an intermediary capacity in governmental matters affecting his group.
During the war, the North __________
A) was plagued by the lack of manufactured goods B) suffered from a weak railroad system C) was plagued by a series of violent antidraft riots D) finally overcame the problem of anti-African American racism E) slowly began to starve