President Richard Nixon's principal plan for ending the American commitment in the Vietnam conflict was
A) threatening to invade China unless the North Vietnamese forces withdrew.
B) withdrawing American troops unilaterally.
C) ordering a naval blockade of the port of Haiphong.
D) building up the South Vietnamese army in order to withdraw American troops.
D
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Which of the following events did not occur in 1968?
A) The nomination of an antiwar Democratic candidate for president B) The assassination of a prominent civil-rights leader C) Violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago D) A political comeback by a Republican politician E) The assassination of a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination
Which of the following forms of transportation predominated before the 1820s and 1830s?
A) national road systems B) canal systems C) steamboats D) flatboats E) railroads
Until spring 1943, perhaps Hitler's greatest opportunities of defeating Britain and winning the war was
a. the possibility of a successful invasion across the English Channel. b. that German U-boat would destroy Allied shipping. c. the German V-2 rockets fired into Britain that would cause their terrified civilian population to demand Prime Minister Churchill to surrender to Nazi Germany. d. that General Rommel would conquer Egypt and the Suez Canal. e. that the American-British-Soviet alliance would collapse.
In the Middle East during the interwar period,
a. a massive oil discovery at Dhahran in 1938 moved Saudi Arabia from being an area of chronic poverty to one of unexpected national affluence. b. the achievement of the "Nile breakthrough" in electricity generation opened the possibility of almost cost-free electric power to much of the entire Middle East. c. the award of a mandate to the World Zionist Congress by the League of Nations constituted the first step in creating a Jewish state in the eastern Mediterranean. d. the Balfour Declaration was made null and void. e. Lawrence of Arabia was made the first king of Saudi Arabia.