As a result of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956,
a. Egypt was attacked by the British, the French, and the Israelis.
b. the Israelis supported Egypt in revenge for the holocaust.
c. the Eisenhower administration secured control of the canal for the Europeans by sending in a United States occupation force.
d. the Israelis retained perpetual control of the Sinai Peninsula.
e. the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan.
a
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a. National Recovery Administration b. Agricultural Adjustment Act c. Civilian Conservation Corps d. Social Security Act
Which of the following was NOT a motive for antiabolitionism in Boston?
a) Prejudice against blacks was common in the North as well as in the South. b) A mood of conservatism and a longing for stability was commonplace in America in the mid-1830's. c) Abolitionists were thought to be French agents secretly fermenting revolution in America. d) Attacks on slavery were thought to threaten the economic well-being of the North. e) Southerners warned that unless abolitionists were suppressed they would destroy the union.
Which of the following was associated with the American political and economic pattern that the Spanish established by 1750?
a. Haciendas became the foundation of commercial economies. b. All of the answers are correct. c. Officials from Spain dominated the upper echelons of both state and church. d. Criollos served important positions as municipal officials. e. Subjugation of the indigenous people.
To what does the term “Iron Curtain” refer?
A) the border between North and South Korea B) the military operation in which the United States dropped the atom bomb on Japan C) the railroad system that was restored in Europe after World War II ended D) the separation between Soviet-dominated Europe and Western Europe E) the seemingly insurmountable class divide in postwar Western Europe