To respond to the fears that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the United States would __________
A) build a supersonic passenger plane
B) put a man on the moon
C) produce most of its electricity from nuclear power
D) graduate more science PhDs than any other nation
Answer: B
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The incentive to mechanize northern industry and agriculture came in part from __________.
a. a shortage of cheap labor b. the influx of unskilled immigrant laborers c. discoveries of new sources of raw materials d. a desire to compete economically with the South
Thucydides' generation knew that a human's senses could deceive them. To what conclusion did this lead?
A) Humans had to learn more about themselves. B) Humans had to develop instruments to enhance the senses. C) Humans should not believe what they sense. D) Humans should disregard the world around them. E) Humans will learn about the world in the afterlife.
The Ottoman Empire's defeat at the battle of Lepanto in 1571 signaled that the focus of European states was shifting from
A) the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. B) Europe to Asia. C) America to Africa. D) the Atlantic to the Pacific. E) the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
Charles Parnell, the leader of the Irish representatives in Parliament, called for
A) Ireland's complete separation from Britain. B) the partition of Ireland into two states, one of which would be fully independent and the other of which would be joined to Britain. C) Irish self-government through a separate parliament but not complete independence. D) the union of Ireland and Scotland into a New United Kingdom. E) the dominance of Ireland over all of Britain.