For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
Cold War
What will be an ideal response?
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Which event did NOT occur during the presidency of Harry Truman?
A) The Berlin airlift overcame the Soviet blockade. B) Joseph McCarthy was censured by the Senate. C) George F. Kennan first articulated the containment policy. D) The Alger Hiss hearings began. E) HUAC began to investigate Hollywood.
An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:
a) an immigrant's purchase of bread. b) Mrs. Bradley Martin's Costume Ball. c) John D. Rockefeller's purchase of a competing company. d) the social welfare services of European nations like Germany.
Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903
A. lasted just over one minute. B. took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and did not in fact take off by itself. C. did not in fact take off by itself. D. took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. E. All these answers are correct.
Francis Daniel Pastorius’s description of the ship that brought him to Pennsylvania as “Noah’s Ark” highlights the colony’s __________.
a) religious diversity b) political idealism c) ethnic homogeneity d) class solidarity