The original objective of the Allied division of Korea in 1945 was to
a. protect American and Japanese troops in Manchuria.
b. create two independent, separate nations on the peninsula.
c. create a Communist north and an anti-Communist south.
d. establish a reunified, independent nation on the peninsula after reestablishing order.
e. establish a permanent Soviet-American presence on the Korean peninsula.
d
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Which of the following statements about urbanization is accurate?
A. As bad as American cities were, they were more orderly and beautiful than their European counterparts. B. American cities proved the truth of "America, the melting pot." C. American cities were dull, boring, and lifeless. D. American cities were characterized by a mixture of social classes, ethnic groups, and racial groups that sometimes lived in harmony and sometimes did not.
The federal government and President Johnson declared "war" on poverty during the
A) New Deal. B) Great Frontier. C) Great Society. D) New Frontier.
The society of the eighteenth-century backcountry was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
A. self-sufficiency. B. isolation. C. hard work. D. class conflict.
Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it
a. failed to provide enough German financial reparations to the United States. b. violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points. c. robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation. d. isolated the United States from postwar world affairs. e. made collective international security and alliances of peaceful democratic states more difficult to construct and sustain.