Which of the following was a consequence of the Russian decision to cut off Western land access to Berlin in 1948?
a. The United States, France, and Britain relinquished their sectors of Berlin to the Soviet Union.
b. President Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies to the isolated city.
c. The United States threatened to use the atomic bomb if access was not restored.
d. President Truman ordered an armored tank division through the Soviet zone of Germany to West Berlin.
b
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A) no one was executed for their roles in the Whiskey Rebellion B) Shays's Rebellion took place in a more prosperous area C) the first was about voting rights and the second was about taxes D) only poor people took part in Shays's Rebellion
Based on the information in Map 9.3, the region most affected by foreign invasions was part of the __________
A) Carolingian Empire B) Kingdom of Jerusalem C) Cairo caliphate D) Abbasid caliphate
Which of the following is NOT true of settlement houses?
A) They were reform communities run by college-educated women. B) They were in the midst of the neighborhoods they were trying to help. C) They were progressives but were often anti-immigrant. D) They combined moral and social appeal.
The Ethiopian Peace Movement and the National Movement for a Forty-Ninth State are examples of __________
a) black nationalist groups b) white citizens groups c) nonviolent resistance groups d) black labor unions