In foreign affairs John F. Kennedy was critical of Eisenhower's policies. When he became president, Kennedy:
a) adopted a "flexible response" to be prepared for conventional and guerrilla wars
b) relied on "massive retaliation," but his advisers did not use that John Foster Dulles phrase
c) decided to increase the reliance on missiles, strategic bombers, and nuclear weapons
d) cut back on the general military build-up, to spend more money on domestic programs
A
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Which of the following statements expressed Lincoln's view of slavery at the beginning of the Civil War?
A) He privately supported it. B) He believed it should be expanded to the territories. C) He believed that it was the role of the national government to interfere with slavery in the states. D) He wanted to hold the Union together with or without slavery.
Napoleon decided to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States in part because
A. he wanted full control of the port of New Orleans in exchange. B. the British had threatened to invade the territory. C. he needed the United States to contribute military forces on the continent in his war against Britain. D. he believed the Louisiana Territory was a "great desert" unfit for habitation. E. the French army on the American continent had been decimated by disease.
In spite of numerous cultural differences slaves and their Western owners both believed:
A) in a supreme being, as well as lesser gods. B) the dead returned in the form of animals. C) ancestors retained a life force after death. D) in a physical world, and a world inhabited by the souls of the dead.
What led Theodore Roosevelt to issue the Roosevelt Corollary?
A) German aggression in Africa B) Japanese imperialism C) the threat of revolution in China D) fear of political uprisings in Latin America