It could be claimed that all of the following contributed to Islamic terrorist activity against the West EXCEPT
A) the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
B) the rise of fundamentalist Islam with the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
C) the stationing of US forces in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
D) the defeat of Muslim Pakistan by India in Kashmir.
E) the Iraq war, which resulted in many civilian casualties and the torture of prisoners by American troops.
D
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a) a mistake from the beginning. b) another Vietnam. c) the first completely successful military action in years. d) a good but flawed victory. e) an unjustified use of power by the United States.
W.E.B. Du Bois represented the first effort to encourage African Americans to recognize that:
A) their culture was a source of communal strength and should be preserved. B) they should seek to sublimate their culture to white culture. C) they were only fit for manual work. D) they should remain in the South.
The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation was
a. strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing. b. attempts to establish the federal government as a neutral arbiter between business and labor. c. support for organized labor's efforts to unionize various industries. d. to support reasonable regulation of business. e. to try to enlist farmers as a political counterbalance to industrial laborers.
The "lend-lease" plan
A. saw England allow the construction of American military bases in British territory. B. allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England, to be returned when the war was over. C. saw England agree to allow jobless Americans to enlist in the British military. D. was extremely controversial and barely passed the Senate. E. saw the U.S. lend funds to the Allies so they could lease war supplies from the U.S.