The creation of a Jewish state:
A. intensified Cold War conflicts.
B. preceded the United Nations' abstention from taking action in 1947.
C. was worsened by Britain's harsh judgments of the Zionist movement.
D. engendered a surprisingly positive reaction from Egypt.
E. provoked little controversy at the time.
A
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After taking command of the southern campaign for the Americans, Nathanael Greene
A. instructed his troops to follow a scorched-earth policy. B. systematically seized the property of loyalists throughout the South. C. adopted a conciliatory policy toward loyalists and neutrals throughout the South. D. destabilized civilian governments throughout the area.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled 13 member organizations because of a. their refusal to accept a CIO-negotiated contracted
b. the requirements of the Taft-Hartley Act. c. anticommunism. d. their resistance to black members. e. pressure from the Truman White House.
By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____, and the southern colonies relied on ____
a. cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo b. furs and skins, tobacco, iron works c. rice and indigo, lumber and timber, tobacco d. shipbuilding, iron works, cattle and grain e. cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing
The moral of Sophocles' play Oedipus was
a. that although one cannot avoid the fate of the gods, one's own actions bear personal responsibility. b. adhering to a "higher law" to bury her brother meant that Antigone had to break Athenian law. c. evil acts breed evil deeds, and Orestes was not wrong to avenge his father. d. women should be granted more legal rights and status, or Medea would not have harmed her children. e. that Lysistrata could organize women and show the foolishness of war.