For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
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Who designed Vienna's Nameless Library, which commemorates the deaths of 65,000 Austrian Jews under the Nazis?
A. Pablo Picasso B. Tatjiana Yablonskaya C. Jackson Pollock D. Rachel Whiteread
Nathaniel Currier's Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington, a colored lithograph that was cheaper to print than a traditional engraving, became a bestseller with the American public because it __________
A) celebrated technological triumph B) displayed the nation's wealth and ingenuity C) commemorated a patriotic event D) exploited and sensationalized disaster
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During the 1950s, the U.S. government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was
A. the long-range delivery of weapons. B. to catch up with German knowledge of rocketry. C. the establishment of communication and spy satellites around the earth. D. exploration of outer space. E. the quest to land a man on the moon.