The partition of the Indian subcontinent into the states of India and Pakistan in 1947 was accomplished with almost no violence or bloodshed
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Why did the conservative grassroots movement known as the Tea Party emerge after Barack Obama's election in 2008?
A) There were concerns about the escalating debt and federal power. B) Tea Partiers opposed American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. C) Holding Islamic prisoners indefinitely without charges in the Guantánamo Bay prison went against their moral beliefs. D) They feared polarizing leaders like Sarah Palin who proposed radical ideas about government.
President Taft stirred the anger of many progressives when he
a. signed the reactionary Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill. b. politically began to align himself with the Republican Old Guard in advance of the 1910 congressional elections. c. fired forest conservationist Gifford Pinchot from his administration. d. proved less aggressive at trust busting than Theodore Roosevelt. e. aligned himself with Republican senatorial reactionaries.
Features of European social and economic life in the seventeenth century included
A) the decline of Atlantic trading centers and the flourishing of Mediterranean ports. B) the decline in urban population. C) frequent peasant rebellions against higher taxes. D) the abolition of the putting-out system. E) a better living style and level of life for the urban working classes.
Why did the Soviet Union move forces into the northern half of Korea?
A. to fulfill treaty obligations B. as an occupation force after the defeat of Japan C. to reinforce the Chinese Nationalist forces fighting against the Communists D. to reinforce the Chinese Communist forces fighting against the Nationalists