As president, John F. Kennedy's strategy of "flexible response"
a. updated John Foster Dulles's doctrine of massive retaliation against Asia.
b. was developed during to address the increasing civil rights protests.
c. called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.
d. focused on naval power and large aircraft carriers.
e. proposed substituting guerilla warfare for nuclear weapons use.
c
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What will be an ideal response?
The German invaders who flooded into the western Roman Empire in the fourth century were
A) long-time neighbors, familiar with Roman civilization, who were attracted to Roman wealth and culture. B) savage barbarians who had nothing to contribute to Rome. C) pagans who were hostile to Christianity. D) a powerful threat that even a healthy Rome would have been unable to resist. E) outsiders who were as much strangers to the Romans as the Romans were strangers to them.
Whose work represented the culmination of the attack on Ptolemaic-Aristotelian cosmology?
a. Copernicus b. Newton c. Kepler d. Galileo e. Bacon
In which post-classical civilization did women enjoy the highest status?
a. Tang China b. Islamic c. Byzantine d. Carolingian e. Heian Japan