What made the 1970 killings of four students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University so ironic?
A) Americans feared that a war undertaken to protect American democracy was instead of
destroying it.
B) The four victims had just been drafted to go serve in Vietnam and Cambodia.
C) Nixon had recently called the student protestors such as those at Kent State "bums blowing up
campuses" while the public perceived them as martyrs.
D) The Kent State shootings unmasked the "town and gown" divide that resulted in
counterprotests to support the war.
A
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An April 2003 Gallup Poll revealed that only ________ of black respondents supported the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq
A) 5 percent B) 29 percent C) 10 percent D) 35 percent
The careers of Haydn and Mozart show that eighteenth-century musicians
A) often depended on the wealthy and powerful to provide them with a living. B) were reluctant to challenge the Baroque style of their predecessors. C) were not influenced in any meaningful way by Enlightenment ideas, D) embraced mysticism and the irrational. E) had little popular appeal and were only admired centuries later.
Megasthenes was an ambassador to the Mauryan court at Pataliputra, sent by what ruler?
a. Ptolemy I. b. Alexander the Great. c. Cyrus II. d. Seleucus I. e. Han Wudi.
Which of the following is the best definition of the Zhou term "tian"?
a. the spirit of the Yangzi river b. the feminine principle of the earth c. a warrior god that was an ancestor of the Zhou family d. the first human e. the force that governs the universe