Discuss the reasons why the U.S. government announced a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, as well as the difficulties the United States had in maintaining such a policy prior to its entry into the war in 1917
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Answer: At the beginning of World War I, the Wilson administration considered the United States above fighting to solve political problems, and considered that the United States didn't have any major stake in the outcome of the war. The British blockade of Germany, and German retaliation through the use of submarine warfare, however, made it impossible for the United States to remain uninvolved.
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a. Richard Trevithick. b. Elihu Babbage. c. James Watt. d. George Stephenson. e. Edmund Cartwright.
Look at Map 6.2, Early societies of Andean South America, 1000 B.C.E.-700 C.E. Discuss the relationship to water of these early South American societies. Discuss the problems of communications between Mesoamerica and South America as well as within South America itself.
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Europe's balance of power was upset when Prussia's King Frederick II seized the Austrian province of __________.
A. Silesia B. Austria C. Germany D. the Netherlands
The earliest human societies were cooperative communities based on
a. random migrations of individuals looking for collectives to join b. hierarchies determined by material wealth c. exclusive hunter or gatherer communities d. groups exclusively differentiated by race e. personal relationships, such as kinship ties