Who were the Einsatzgruppen?
a. Special air force pilots responsible for the bombing of Great Britain
b. Special guards assigned to concentration camps
c. A special court assigned the task of trying Jews
d. Special strike forces assigned to mobile killing units of Jews
e. A secret police force assigned the task of guarding Hitler
d
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What error in reasoning or calculation led Columbus to believe that Asia could be reached by a short sea voyage?
A) He believed that the Asian continent lay to the west of Europe. B) He miscalculated the distance from Europe to Asia by 7,000 miles. C) He thought that friendly inhabitants living on intervening continents would lend assistance to European explorers. D) He knew that the earth is round. E) He reasoned that a water route through or around new continents existed.
Which of the following is NOT true about the United Nations?
a. Its General Assembly was composed of all member nations. b. Its Security Council was composed of eleven nations, six of which were elected by the General Assembly, and five of which were permanent ? the Allies. c. Permanent members of the Security Council could veto decisions to exercise military or economic pressure against other nations. d. Americans understood the United Nations' move to New York as a socialist conspiracy.
Which of the following is not true about Andrew Carnegie?
A) ?He did not believe in charity or welfare. B) ?He built more than twenty-five hundred libraries across the world. C) He believed that the poor were lazy and that they needed to be taught skills to improve their lives. D) ?He repeatedly agreed to collective bargaining requests from workers at his companies. E) ?He erected concert halls.
Chief Justice Roger Taney’s decision in the Dred Scott case included all of the following provisions EXCEPT
a. slaves were not citizens of the United States, and could not bring suit in court. b. free blacks were not citizens of the United States, and had no rights which whites must respect. c. the federal government could bar slavery from territories, but not from existing states. d. the Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional.