Which of the following occurred at the battle at Manzikert?
A) The Seljuk armies were soundly defeated.
B) The Turks soundly defeat the Byzantine forces.
C) Basil II soundly defeated the Bulgars.
D) The Persians were defeated.
Answer: B
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Scandinavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed
A) Denmark expand so as to dominate the Baltic. B) Sweden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War. C) Sweden and Denmark join forces to defeat and occupy Poland in 1660. D) the economic dominance of Sweden over the rest of northern Europe. E) the conquest of Sweden by Norway.
When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by
a. asking the United Nations to intervene. b. denying the Soviets access to West Germany. c. declaring that an iron curtain had descended across Central Europe. d. organizing a gigantic airlift of supplies to Berlin. e. sending an armed convoy to Berlin.
The Truman administration decided to withdraw aid to the government headed by Chiang Kai-shek based on whose recommendation?
A) Henry Wallace B) George Marshall C) Douglas MacArthur D) Dean Acheson
Following the Geneva Conference, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles concluded that America would succeed in containing Communism in Indochina where France had failed because
A. American economic aid could buy off the Vietnamese Communists. B. American nuclear superiority would permit Washington to dictate terms to Ho Chi Minh. C. the French had sought to perpetuate colonialism in Indochina rather than cooperation. D. American troops were better equipped than their French counterparts.