George Kennan argued that containment would __________.
a. work in the long run
b. produce an immediate victory
c. doom future generations of Americans to a life of perpetual war
d. only help the Soviet Union achieve its aims
a. work in the long run
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Limpieza de sangre and the colonial hierarchy of castas shows that the idea of race was
A) a natural product of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. B) developed to reflect real biological differences in the developmental potential of people. C) evidence of perfect legal equality assigned by Laws of the Indies to legitimate citizens. D) socially constructed to rationalize and preserve the power of a tiny ruling elite.
Hard-line defenders of slavery who convened a Southern rights convention in Nashville "to devise and adopt some mode of resistance to Northern aggression" were known as __________
A) Young Americans B) "conductors" C) Confederates D) "fire-eaters"
Which area failed to establish a centralized territorial state by the end of the fifteenth century?
A. France B. Italy C. Spain D. England E. Austria
What was Reagan's philosophy prior to the late 1980s when dealing with the Russians?
A) Deal with the Soviets from a "position of strength." B) Never trust their actions or words. C) Diplomacy must be firm but delicate. D) Undermine the "evil empire" at any cost. E) All of these