How was Nixon’s Cold War strategy different from that of Kennedy and Johnson?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Nixon saw the Cold War not as an ideological struggle for survival with Communism but as a traditional great-power rivalry.
2. His goal was to manage the conflict, not to win it outright.
3. With this in mind, he sought a relaxation of tensions with the Soviet Union.
4. To achieve this goal, Nixon established improved relations with China and used trade to induce Soviet cooperation.
5. The Soviets responded by agreeing to nuclear arms talks.
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a. the tough Prime Minister who succeeded Lord North b. the first president of the Second Continental Congress c. a businessman who stabilized American finances during the war d. a delegate to the Congressional Congress, who drafted the Articles of Confederation
How was Russian expansion into Siberia similar to colonization efforts in North America? How was it different?
What will be an ideal response?
Horses were reintroduced to North America by the __________
A) Spanish B) Dutch C) French D) English
Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act:
a. called for the North to secede from the Union. b. formed the Republican Party. c. organized bands of men who raided the Deep South and freed slaves. d. refused to send emigrants to Kansas on the grounds that it was "tainted soil."