Upon learning that the Soviet Union had successfully tested an atomic bomb, the United States
A) threatened a preemptive air strike against the Soviets' nuclear laboratories.
B) slowed down the pace of nuclear research.
C) authorized the development of the hydrogen super bomb.
D) responded with indifference.
Answer: C
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a. the war had polarized South African whites in support of the Allies or Axis. b. many Africans, not in the military, found new opportunities as whites left for the war. c. all of the answers are correct. d. the Atlantic Charter moved many Africans to ask for greater rights and tolerance. e. Africans, involved in the war, came home with an expanded view and ideas of the outside world.
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a. The canal system b. a system of interconnected roads. c. connection of walls which ultimately made up The Great Wall. d. the Forbidden City palace. e. an elaborate irrigation system in the Northern provinces.
Southern political strategies of the 1850s depended on __________
A) stopping the Underground Railroad B) the concept of manifest destiny C) popular sovereignty D) maintaining supremacy in the U.S. Senate