The Strategic Arms Defense Initiative
a. was controversial.
b. was deployed by the Soviet Union.
c. was a space-based high-tech defense.
d. All of these answers are correct.
c
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Which of the following most accurately describes the election of 1896?
a. Silver mine owners of mountain states gave generously to Bryan's campaign. b. Bryan's appeal for silver and morality won mainly in the South and the West. c. Bryan's appeal for silver and morality won mainly in the Northeast. d. William McKinley won easily by a margin of over a million votes.
In spite of his hopes, Alexander lost the Battle of the Hydaspes River, and thus he was never able to set foot in India
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
As a result of the Dred Scott decision,
a. President Buchanan called publicly for the impeachment of Chief Justice Roger Taney. b. the presence of an aggressive Slave Power was confirmed in the minds of many northerners. c. several southern states threatened to secede from the Union. d. most white northerners favored a constitutional amendment extending equal rights to African Americans.
The fundamental idea of the containment doctrine, embraced by President Truman, was
a. the Soviet Union should be gradually forced to give up its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. b. the Soviet Union should be prevented from trading with nations in Africa and Asia. c. the West and the Soviet Union should seek to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. d. Soviet communist expansion in regions of the world should be blocked by firm political, economic, military, and diplomatic defense of free peoples and nations by America. e. military competition between the West and the Soviets should be replaced by economic competition.