Which country provided the international intellectual language of the mid-eighteenth century and was the center of cultural life?
A) England
B) France
C) The Netherlands
D) Spain
E) Sweden
Ans: B
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a) financial aid sent to China and United States troops sent into Indochina b) a naval blockade of Japan, to be effective on December 1, 1941 c) the freezing of Japan's assets in the United States d) the resumption of steel and aviation fuel exports to Japan, hoping to drive a wedge into the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haitian rebellion in 1791:
A) closed the Caribbean to American trade. B) struck fear into the hearts of white slave owners. C) was a bloody failure, leaving Haiti under Spanish control. D) proved that American slavery was safe and secure.
The black patron who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white patron was
a. Rosa Parks. b. Coretta Scott King. c. Marian Anderson. d. Fannie Lou Hamer. e. Ella Fitzgerald.
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a. Thermopylae b. Marathon c. Ionia d. Plataea e. Salamis