What was the XYZ affair?
A) It was an incident where a British ship attacked and American naval vessel without warning.
B) It was an effort by the French to get the United States to pay a bribe before they would negotiate.
C) It was the first time that the United States tried to publish its own English dictionary.
D) It was an attempt by Thomas Jefferson to persuade undecided electors to vote for him.
E) It was the first scandal in American presidential history when George Washington was caught cheating on his income taxes.
B
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A) led Muslim armies into India. B) devastated northern India. C) destroyed Shiva?s temple in Gujarat and murdered its defenders. D) engendered bitter emotions among Hindus toward Muslims to the present. E) all of the above.
What best describes President Carter's foreign policy?
A. weak in Eastern Europe but strong in the Middle East B. weak in Latin America but strong in Eastern Europe C. somewhat successful in the Middle East but strong everywhere else D. somewhat successful in Eastern Europe but weak everywhere else
Soviet actions to counter the formation of NATO included
a. the secret treaty with France, made in 1949 and publicized only in 1959, to share military alliance information in times of international stress caused by America. b. the creation of the Warsaw Pact, which created a trade zone in eastern Europe. c. the creation of the German Federal Republic in 1949. d. the development of the Warsaw Pact as a military balance to NATO. e. a treaty with Turkey and Greece guaranteeing their boundaries against attacks by Yugoslavia.
Under the New Economic Policy, the Bolsheviks
a. confiscated the last remaining small businesses and peasant farms in Russia. b. gave up control of banks and the steel industry. c. funneled government investment towards consumer industries. d. allowed for the return to small-scale capitalism. e. controlled all the crop harvests of the peasants.