Devastating outbreaks of disease, striking for the first time against a completely unprotected population, are known as __________
A) virgin soil epidemics
B) primary outbreaks
C) initial events
D) isolation syndrome events
Answer: A
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One basic reason why the U.S. Senate failed to ratify the Versailles Treaty was the
A) refusal of both Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge to compromise. B) conflict between the treaty and the Monroe Doctrine. C) uncompromising opposition of the "irreconcilables." D) failure of the treaty to include a League of Nations.
The treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion saw Qing power in China totally defeated and forced to accept the most severe “unequal” demands to date, as part of what came to be referred as the Boxer Protocols of 1901, including all but one of the following:
a. the right by foreign powers to post troops in major Chinese cities b. the total suppression of any antiforeign movements c. exorbitant indemnity payments d. that German be made the official diplomatic language of China
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation created in 1932
a. offered relief payments to the unemployed. b. gave significant relief to American farmers. c. offered government loans to banks and corporations. d. offered low interest loans to home buyers. e. was later abolished by the Roosevelt administration.
How did groups who were sympathetic to immigration issues counter the efforts of the anti-immigration movement? a. they rallied immigrant populations via radio and Spanish-language publications
b. they staged work-stoppages. c. they organized street demonstrations. d. they used research to counter claims that undocumented workers took jobs away from legal Americans. e. all of these choices.