According to Walter Lippmann, the sinking of the Lusitania
a. was an unprecedented act of war.
b. united Englishmen and Americans in a common grief.
c. was nothing more than letting the steam off the inevitable conflict.
d. all of the above
Answer: b. united Englishmen and Americans in a common grief.
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An example of nationalist terrorism is the
A) Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany. B) IRA in Northern Ireland. C) New Order in Italy. D) Charles Martel Club in France. E) Al-Qaeda in the Middle East.
Both Bacon's Rebellion and Culpeper's Rebellion resulted from conflict between __________.
A. government powers and backcountry regions of Virginia and North Carolina B. Puritans and dissenters in Rhode Island and Massachusetts C. "praying town" Indians and Covenant Chain Indians in New England D. slave traders and those who objected to slavery
As married women in the United States have increasingly embraced paid work, their spouses have:
a. formed men’s movements to resist women’s changing roles. b. increased their involvement in masculine leisure time activities. c. increasingly rearranged their priorities to give more time to home and family. d. grown increasingly resentful of women’s changing roles.
What was inflammatory about the Zimmerman telegram?
A. It attempted to bring Mexico into the war on the side of the Central Powers. B. It asked Mexico to engage in war with the United States to draw it out of the European arena. C. It promised Mexico the return of land lost to the United States in the nineteenth century if it would side with Germany. D. It offered Mexico control of Spain at the end of the war for engaging the United States. E. None of these.