By the 1950s, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union included all the following EXCEPT
a. détente.
b. possible nuclear annihilation.
c. border conflicts in Eastern and Western Europe.
d. American political and military ideas of containment.
e. espionage, propaganda, and insults toward each other.
a
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In 1915, the Supreme Court
a. endorsed the separate but equal principle. b. outlawed railroad rebates. c. invalidated "grandfather clauses" that allowed certain whites to vote in Oklahoma and Maryland. d. declared poll taxes unconstitutional. e. declared segregation unconstitutional.
As a possession of the United States, Puerto Ricans
a. enjoy no rights as U.S. citizens. b. do not have the right to elect their own governor. c. have a poverty rate far greater than that of the mainland. d. immediately launched a bloody war for their independence. e. insisted on re-establishing their relationship with Spain.
Nationwide standardization of time became a necessity for which of the following reasons? a. In the event of a national emergency, the military needed to be assured of a regularity of time from place toplace
b. Railroad scheduling required that there be a regularity of time from place to place. c. Monetary transactions undertaken by the nation's leading financial institutions required a regularity of timefrom place to place. d. The transfer of raw materials to factories and finished products to consumers requires a regularity of timefrom place to place.
How did Indians respond to the influx of English settlers into their territory after 1763?
a. They formed alliances among themselves and launched a series of attacks. b. They withdrew further west. c. They turned to their traditional allies, the French, for help. d. Most of them reluctantly signed new treaties with the English, ceding more land.