According to the Hearst newspapers, who was responsible for the destruction of the Maine?
A) the Spanish
B) Cuban rebels
C) incompetent American sailors
D) the company that made the ship
Answer: A
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Why did Saudi Arabia cut off oil shipments to the United States in 1973?
a. The United States had sent emergency aid to Israel during the October War. b. Saudi Arabia feared Soviet retaliation if it continued to supply the United States with oil. c. President Carter was refusing to pay full price for Saudi oil shipments. d. The United States had become involved in the conflict in Nicaragua.
The West Indies' need for such supplies as pine tar and cattle led it to develop particularly close ties to the colony of ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
According to Empedocles, __________ were the two primary forces that move the four basic elements of fire, water, earth, and air that compose our universe.
A. love and strife B. gods and magic C. chaos and order D. humans and gods
"King Cotton" failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy partly because
a. Britain held large surpluses of cotton when the war began. b. the British elite had long resented the aristocratic pretensions of southern planters. c. poor harvests over the late 1850s and early 1860s drastically reduced the South´s cotton production. d. Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in South Africa and Australia. e. the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.