Following its promises to "roll back" communism, in 1956 the Eisenhower administration provided military and economic assistance to Hungarian rebels in their successful uprising against Soviet troops
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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One version of southern tenant farming was the sharecropping system, in which:
a. all of a family's members shared in the harvest even if they did not work on the farm b. the landlord supplied land and a house in return for part, usually half, of the crop c. each family member planted a crop, then pooled it with the family at harvest time d. the tenant farmer provided his own seed, mule, and plow, and gave the landlord one-fourth of the crop
How did President Truman justify modifying his demand for an unconditional surrender of Japan?
A) He thought that waiting for an unconditional surrender would give Japan time to regroup. B) He saw Japanese Emperor Hirohito as reasonable and a potentially useful ally. C) He declared that accepting a conditional surrender would save American lives. D) He believed that the American people wanted peace more than anything else. E) He concluded that keeping the Imperial Institution intact would ease the occupation of Japan.
An estimated ________ Palestinians were driven out of their villages and homes after the first Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949.
a. 3 million. b. 750,000. c. 50,000. d. 200,000.
The first quarter of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of
A) local political elites. B) women's suffrage. C) the politics of "deference." D) professional politicians.