Why was the United States willing to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Greece and Turkey in 1947?
a. Communist had recently taken control of China
b. Policymakers believed communism should be attacked wherever it existed
c. If Communist took control of those countries, supplies would have to be airlifted to Berlin.
Ans: b. Policymakers believed communism should be attacked wherever it existed
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a. enabled them to wage more successful wars against their enemies. b. allowed them to travel across the vast expanse of North America, from Atlantic to Pacific. c. transformed their cultures into wide-ranging, hunter-gather societies that roamed the Great Plains. d. led them to shift from agriculture to ranch-based economies. e. All of these
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a. blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. b. Southern armies found no way of utilizing slave labor. c. thousands of slaves rose in armed rebellion behind Southern lines. d. about one out of every four Union troops was black. e. captured black soldiers were treated well by Confederates.
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A) slave B) black C) gold D) fever