Why did the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation hurt the credibility of President Kennedy?
A) He denounced Fidel Castro as a dictator.
B) He supported the efforts of Cuban exiles against Fidel Castro.
C) He claimed that the United States had not been involved in this operation.
D) He took credit for an invasion that had been planned under President Eisenhower.
C
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Many of the most prominent education reformers of the 1820s and 1830s were
A) Whigs who believed that they could organize schools to build a new American culture that was better than the Jacksonian democracy which they thought was too individualistic and unlikely to transmit the kind of moral code essential to a well-regulated national life. B) Jacksonian Democrats who believed they could organize schools that would promote the individualistic, freer, populist, and aggressive America that President Jackson and his supporters envisioned and advanced. C) men because women did not take any significant interest in the moral education of children in the schools or at home. D) Roman Catholics committed to building a public education system in local communities.
Outcomes of the Persian Gulf War included which of the following?
A) the toppling of Saddam Hussein from power B) the outburst of civil war in Iran C) a general belief that American military technology was inferior D) the achievement of President Bush's goal to restore the "status quo"
The vague plans for political modernization under the Meiji Restoration of 1868 were called
a. The Declaration of Rights of Citizens. b. The Five Point Plan c. The Magna Carta d. The Charter Oath e. The Emancipation Proclamation
The most successful of the nineteenth-century communitarian movements was __________
A) Oneida B) New Harmony C) the Shaker community D) Mormonism