What caused the Gulf of Tonkin affair?
a. American support for covert operations in Vietnam led North Vietnam to attack a U.S. ship.
b. American intervention in Cuban politics led Castro to urge the North Vietnamese to attack U.S. ships.
c. American hostility to Russia caused Khrushchev to ask the North Vietnamese to attack U.S. ships.
d. Russian hostility to North Vietnam caused Khrushchev to ask the United States to seize North Vietnamese ships.
e. North Vietnam attacked South Vietnamese ships carrying valuable natural resources to the United States, and the Americans retaliated.
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In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia __________
A) attacked the English settlements B) formed an alliance with the Native American tribes of New England C) established permanently good relations with the English settlers D) learned from the English settlers how to grow tobacco E) migrated westward to avoid future contact with settlers
What were the major issues on the postwar settlement that emerged from the wartime conferences of the Grand Alliance? Which of these were the most controversial? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
President Wilson's plan for a lasting peace after the Great War was known as the
A) Fourteen Points. B) Versailles Plan. C) League of Nations. D) Peace Without Victory Plan.
Which of the following statements about British attempts to turn slave rebelliousness into a strategic advantage is the most accurate?
A. British leaders successfully turned former slaves into a black army of 10,000. B. In attempts to gain loyalties, British leaders created a sanctuary for black loyalists on the southeastern coast. C. British leaders did not think that organizing support among African Americans would be effective. D. The British helped organize the largest slave revolt in history.