The British invested heavily in the opium trade to ________
A) rectify a trade imbalance
B) satisfy British demand
C) weaken Qing China
D) assist south Asian growers
A
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In the Middle East during the interwar period,
a. a massive oil discovery at Dhahran in 1938 moved Saudi Arabia from being an area of chronic poverty to one of unexpected national affluence. b. the achievement of the "Nile breakthrough" in electricity generation opened the possibility of almost cost-free electric power to much of the entire Middle East. c. the award of a mandate to the World Zionist Congress by the League of Nations constituted the first step in creating a Jewish state in the eastern Mediterranean. d. the Balfour Declaration was made null and void. e. Lawrence of Arabia was made the first king of Saudi Arabia.
The _____ Voting Rights Act aimed at outlawing the poll taxes, literacy tests, and other means by which states attempted to limit their citizens' ability to vote.
a. 2012. b. 1973. c. 1982. d. 1965.
Why did the Truman administration decide to develop the hydrogen bomb?
The Fifteenth Amendment a. stipulated that states could not deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition ofservitude
b. guaranteed African Americans equal protection under the law. c. extended the right to vote to women and blacks. d. was immediately ratified by all northern states.