President Eisenhower backed Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi because the Americans were concerned that the Soviet Union wanted
a. an ally in the Middle East.
b. Iran's oil fields.
c. to use Iran against Israel.
d. to prevent Iran from getting closer to the U.S.
e. to collect on debts form Iran from the second World War.
b
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Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they
A. generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family. B. tended to have more formal education. C. were expected to be even more subordinate to men. D. had fewer children. E. were more likely to take a role in public activities.
What was the main purpose of collectivization under Stalin?
A) To provide more industrial workers. B) To gain governmental control over Russia's millions of peasants. C) To cut down on overpopulation by creating a false famine that killed about a million people. D) To help Russia to industrialize in a very short time. E) To become industrially competitive with Germany.
Railway companies encouraged settlers to come to the West __________
A) because they could not find laborers to build rail lines B) so they would grow food that could be transported on rail lines C) because they wanted to distribute free land to new settlers D) so that Christianity could become the official religion in state constitutions
_________ believed the United States could treat the Spanish-American War and its corollaries as an aberration and return to its policy of noninterference in the matter of other countries. a. Realists B. Idealists C. Isolationists D. Feudalists
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