How did President Truman justify the use of the atomic bomb?
A. He viewed the bomb as a requirement to proving to the Soviet Union that the United States would win the global arms race.
B. He viewed the bomb as a requirement to asserting the dominance of U.S. interests globally.
C. He viewed the bomb as a necessary military weapon, which shortened the war and saved the lives of American soldiers.
D. He viewed the bomb as a necessary evil required to save the lives of millions of Japanese civilians.
Answer: C
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Why were quotas placed on the number of Chinese immigrants allowed into the United States?
A. to balance quotas placed on Japanese and other Asian groups B. to create better relations with China before the Open Door Policy was implemented C. to limit the political power of farmers and skilled trade union workers D. to appease those who feared economic competition with Chinese immigrants
What class of blacks did many Chicago Renaissance writers focus on during the 1930s and 1940s?
A) the elite of black society, the "Talented Tenth" B) middle-class blacks who had achieved some gains C) working-class blacks struggling to survive D) the black underclass in urban America
China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s for all of the following reasons except
A. relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule. B. new crops had been introduced from the New World. C. introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China. D. the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. E. the central government's termination of legal abortions.
Did Maryland fulfill Lord Baltimore´s hope of creating a vast domain modeled on feudal lines?
a. No, it was soon the home of huge slave-based cotton plantations. b. No, many of the would-be feudal peasants insisted on farming their own land as backcountry planters. c. Yes, Maryland´s large estates drew many willing servants and embodied feudalism at its most successful. d. No, a rebellion of poorer farmers in Maryland saw larger estates broken up and confiscated for redistribution. e. Yes, but feudal-style farming proved unprofitable and was quickly abandoned.