In 1983, after a truck bomb killed 241 U.S. soldiers in Lebanon, President Reagan
a. ordered air strikes against suspected terrorist targets.
b. attempted to destabilize the government of Syria.
c. withdrew the remaining American troops from Lebanon.
d. increased arms sales to Israel.
e. threatened to invade Iran.
c
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A. allowing women to divorce their husbands. B. abolishing communism as an economic system. C. installing Boris Yeltsin as his vice president. D. legalizing the formation of political parties other than just the Communist Party. E. organizing an armed coup d'état against the Soviet parliament.
Which of the following was a series of conflicts over trade in the 1640s between the Huron and other Native peoples and the Iroquois?
A. The Huron Wars B. The Bear Wards C. The Turkey Wards D. The Beaver Wars
What was President Roosevelt's motive in his undeclared naval war with Germany?
A. to provoke an attack that would rouse American support for war B. to test the effectiveness of new military technology C. to show support for Great Britain in order to earn government loan contracts D. to divert American sea power from the Pacific theater
Although the U.S. government had supplied them with money and weapons in the 1980s, ________ became the first target of George W. Bush's "war on terror" because he believed they were protecting Osama bin Laden
A) Hezbollah in Lebanon B) the Taliban in Afghanistan C) the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Syria D) Hamas in Palestine