Khrushchev installed nuclear missiles in Cuba for which of the following reasons?
a. He was preparing for a nuclear strike against the United States.
b. He did so solely to persuade the United States to remove its missiles from Turkey.
c. He did so both to deter an American invasion of Cuba and to improve the Soviet Union's position in the nuclear balance of power
d. He was attempting to build an anti-American alliance among Latin American nations under Soviet control.
c
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In his first diplomatic initiative as president in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
A) extended U.S. diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. B) spoke of need for the United States to "quarantine" European aggressor nations. C) urged Congress to pass a series of neutrality laws to protect American shipping. D) reversed President Hoover's Latin American policies.
How was the Florentine system of government unusual compared to the rest of Western Europe in the fourteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
The eighteenth-century musical composition that has been called one of those rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterpiece of the highest order is
A) Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. B) Haydn's The Seasons. C) Handel's Messiah. D) Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. E) Wagner's The Ring cycle.
After World War II, movements for independence in Africa and Asia intensified
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false