Which areas benefited the most from the military expenditures of the 1950s and 1960s?
A) Atlantic Coast and Alaska Territory
B) New England and the Midwest
C) the Pacific Coast and the West
D) the mid and Deep South
Answer: C
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A) his critique of Spanish brutality in the Americas B) his success in converting native peoples to Catholicism C) allowing himself to be martyred for his beliefs D) helping the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire
Despotic rule replaced republican governments in the Italian city-state for which of the following reasons?
a. Class warfare between rich merchants and aristocrats led each side to seek one-man rule. b. Republican governments were short-term and unable to handle famines, plagues, and economic disasters. c. City-states came to rely on mercenary armies in their wars with fellow city-states. d. Mercenary leaders were willing to seize power. e. all of the above
How did James Madison imagine that a federal republic with a strong central government might work, especially one that governed such a vast land area as that of the United States?
A. He believed that a strong central government would have to be opposed by a well-organized opposition party. B. He simply believed that a strong central government would lead to tyranny and was therefore against it. C. He believed that various interests and factions would cancel each other out in a large republic, and that virtuous national leaders would govern on behalf of all the people. D. He believed that he would be forced to run for president in order to save the union.
The Germans disliked the Versailles Treaty because
A. it required them to give up Berlin and Bavaria. B. they saw its "armistice clause" as an encroachment on their national sovereignty. C. Article 231 said that Germany (and Austria) bore sole responsibility for starting the war. D. they were forced to join the League of Nations. E. it guaranteed no more war.