What organization was formed in 1949 by the U.S. and its allies against the Soviet Union?
A) the Axis Pact
B) the United Nations
C) the NAACP
D) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Answer: D
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Why did Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination function as the catalyst for World War I?
A. Most of Europe's major powers had political and military alliances requiring them to aid each other in times of war. B. The colonial system made war much more appealing as a means to gaining territory C. European nations wanted to spur their economies through wartime production and military spending. D. Western European powers wanted to militarize quickly to prevent the spread of communism from Russia.
The citizens committee responsible for enforcing sanctions against England in 1775 was known as the ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The conquest of ____ in 1944 was especially important because from there Americans could conduct round-trip bombing raids on the Japanese home islands
a. Guadalcanal b. Wake Island c. New Guinea d. Okinawa e. Guam
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
a. dramatized the wickedness of slavery.
b. was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
c. drew on her extensive personal experience with slavery.
d. was frequently compared to Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov.
e. portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.