Defend or refute the following statement by presidential adviser and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: "In the end [counterinsurgency proved] a ghastly illusion. Its primary consequence was to keep alive the American belief in their capacity and right to intervene in foreign lands."
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The leader of the successful revolution in Cuba in December 1958 was
a. Pedro Ramos. b. Fidel Castro. c. Fulgencio Batista. d. Ernesto Ché Guevara. e. Juan Perón.
Which of the following was a new Western motive for overseas territorial expansion in the industrial era?
a. Missionary drive to convert non-Western peoples to Christianity b. Seizure of land to be put to use raising cash crops c. Drive to dominate sources of precious minerals and metals d. Need for raw materials for factory production e. Access to new markets for sale of Western manufactured goods
What are the major Indian castes? How does their makeup resemble, and differ from, the social structures of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations? Cite specific evidence.
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The full-scale tribal societies differed from the complex societies in being __________
A) hunter-gatherers B) farmers C) seminomadic D) settled