To defeat President Wilson's Versailles Treaty, Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge:
a. attached "reservations" that he believed Wilson would reject
b. convinced a majority of Democrats to vote against the treaty
c. persuaded Republicans to filibuster until the treaty died in the Senate
d. engineered a fall for the president, so that Wilson would become handicapped
A
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A. were likely to engage in sex for positive reasons B. endorsed the sexual double standard C. were unsure of being sexually assertive D. were aware of cultural constraints on all women
In the United States, resistance to sending support to Britain stemmed from all the following EXCEPT
A) senior military officers feared weakening U. S. defenses. B) many government officials felt Britain would quickly fall. C) the public opinion was that the current conflict was simply an extension of World War I hostilities. D) economists predicted that the Great Depression would be getting worse.
What new strategy did the British develop to crush the Revolution in 1777?
a. They would seize the cities and impose a naval blockade on American trade.
b. They would conquer the Delaware Valley and then attack Virginia.
c. They would isolate New England by invading New York from several directions.
d. They would attack New England from Canada and the Carolinas from Georgia.
e. They would coordinate Indian attacks in the West with an invasion from Canada.
Communism ended in east-central Europe as a domino effect originating with
A) the fall of the Berlin Wall. B) the end of communist rule in Poland. C) a reaction against Gorbachev's reforms in the neighboring Soviet Union. D) the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. E) a marked illegal migration of Eastern Europeans to the West.