How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?
a. Building the Berlin Wall
b. Airlifting supplies into Berlin
c. Bombing Moscow
d. Sending a UN force to reopen the access routes
e. Threatening nuclear war
b
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With very few exceptions, in the period from 1870 to 1910 women were prohibited from working in factories.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which statement provides the best interpretation of the sentence from the text that reads, "The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook"?
A) Most historians have not realized how similar the English colonies were when they were initially settled. B) The reasons that people settled the English colonies were so complex that they have only begun to be understood recently. C) Settlers of the English colonies tended to overlook the hardships that they would face because they were so eager for religious freedom. D) The experiences of the early English colonists cannot be separated from their experiences back in England. E) The different reasons settlers came to each English colony cannot be considered separately from their experiences once they arrived.
On the subject of racial justice, President Eisenhower
a. had demanded the integration of the armed forces as early as 1948. b. publicly endorsed the 1954 Supreme Court school-desegregation decision. c. vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. d. had advised against integrating the armed forces. e. admired the Christian philosophy of Martin Luther King.
By 1973, the Vietnam War seemed to illustrate the dangers associated with America's obsession with
A) militarism. B) anti-Communism. C) racism. D) anti-terrorism.