As a result of the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the United States __________
A) was confident that the war in the Pacific would soon come to an end
B) eagerly awaited the Soviets' imminent declaration of war on Japan
C) anticipated a long and bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland
D) was ill-prepared to continue the war against Japan
C
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When he became president in 1961, John F. Kennedy did NOT believe that
A) the communist government in North Vietnam was a puppet regime of the Soviet Union and Red China. B) Vietnam should be a proving ground of the containment doctrine. C) the United States should strive for a negotiated compromise in Vietnam. D) if Vietnam fell to Communism, so too would all of Southeast Asia.
The United States declared war on Japan after the surprise attack on December 7, 1941 on
A) Manchuria. B) French Indochina. C) Pearl Harbor. D) Midway Island.
The following was TRUE of the Columbian Exchange EXCEPT
A) there were gains and losses for the Europeans and for peoples of the Americas. B) the transmission of disease-bearing microbes devastated native populations in the Americas. C) new populations began to emerge after 1492 when the peoples who met in the Americas produced offspring that carried the biological traits and the cultures of their ancestors from different parts of the world. D) the exchange of plants in the Columbian Exchange went mostly from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia rather than vice versa.
One important development that greatly aided the settlement and economic development of West Texas and the high plains in the late nineteenth century was __________
A. the use of an improved type of windmill B. the creation of irrigation districts and large irrigation canals C. new breakthroughs in scientific agriculture D. the creation of an extensive state highway system in the region