The major reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s was
a. Ronald Reagan's launching of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
b. a major nuclear power plant disaster in the Soviet Union that virtually destroyed the Soviet economy.
c. a chain of industrial failures in Soviet client states initiated by American covert actions undertaken by
theCIA on orders from President Reagan.
d. the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev.
d
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The war hawks claimed a war with Britain would result in which of the following?
A) the demise of the British Empire B) true independence C) the resumption of the slave trade D) decades of unrest
____________________ of foreign-born workers settled in free states
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What was the first national radio network in the United States?
A) ?CBS B) ?NBC C) ?ABC D) ?NPR
In the American Revolution, the rebels
A. received the support of a number of European countries. B. developed a number of innovative attack techniques used by Napoleonic armies. C. was marked by the seizure of political and military power by the poorest segment of colonial society. D. contained a series of major battles in which American firepower literally destroyed some of the best units of the British army. E. was significantly enhanced by the large slave component in the rebel army.