Who were the new immigrants?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The end of World War II combined with new immigration legislation led to an influx of immigrants after 1965.
2. In the 1980s, 7.3 million people entered the country legally, along with a similar number without documentation.
3. Ten percent of the newcomers were Europeans. Fifty percent came from Latin America and the Caribbean. Forty percent came from Asia.
4. The new immigrants came for the same reasons their predecessors had.
5. Most came with few resources and took what work they could find.
6. These immigrants willingly endured profound hardship in order to build better lives for their families.
7. The non-European origins of the latest immigrants troubled some white citizens.
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a. The Great Communist Revolution b. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution c. The Great Communist Student Revolution d. The Great Student Revolution
What did the Nuremberg Laws try to do?
a. Require Jews to wear a yellow star to be identified in public. b. Prevent Jews from leaving Germany with valuables. c. Restrict Jews from interaction with the Christian population. d. Make it illegal to be Jewish in Germany. e. Require Jews to leave Germany within three years.
Nikita Khrushchev?s policies in the early 1960s
A) reduced international tensions elsewhere. B) supported the United Nations. C) produced a dangerous confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. D) ended the severe tension over Berlin. E) gained support in the United States.
In order to lessen the state's dependence on imported sources of energy, all of the following sources for generating electricity were developed in the 1950s and 1960s except
a. geothermal. b. wind. c. nuclear. d. hydroelectricity.