President George W. Bush's statement "we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them" after the 9/11 attacks justified his decision to immediately __________
A) bomb al-Qaeda strongholds in Yemen in response to its attack on the USS Cole
B) invade Afghanistan and oust the Taliban regime for not turning over al-Qaeda members
C) permit waterboarding as a form of torture against al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
D) invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power
B
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Most Americans became aware of the full horrors of the Holocaust __________
A) at the beginning of the war B) through government films detailing Nazi atrocities C) only as the war entered its final stages D) as European Jewish refugees flooded into the United States from 1941 onward
The Whigs and the Tories disagreed on whether or not __________
A) Parliament should be open to commoners B) James II could assume the English throne C) Charles I could be tried in a court of law D) England and Scotland should form a union
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, what was the only area of Africa where Christianity still flourished?
a. Kush b. Nubia c. Kanem-Bornu d. Ethiopia e. Egypt
Most working African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century ________
A) had a life substantially improved from their parents B) had the opportunity for a high quality education C) worked as poor Southern sharecroppers D) had little reason to protest their situation E) often banded together to start businesses