Was Churchill's phrase, "the Iron Curtain," an accurate reflection of the actual state of relations between East and West in 1946? Why and/or why not? Did Churchill's words contribute to the polarization of East and West?
What will be an ideal response?
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A) Kant. B) Spener. C) Zinzendorf. D) Swedenborg. E) Whitefield.
In their opinions on Korematsu v. United States, Justices Hugo Black and Frank Murphy agreed that some Japanese Americans were disloyal
A) True B) False
American colonists responded to the various coercive colonial laws enacted by Parliament in the late 1760s and enforced by British colonial authorities in all of the following ways except they
a. convened the Stamp Act Congress to address their political and economic grievances to the king and Parliament including calling for the repeal of the Stamp Act. b. visibly protested paying any duties required by these coercive colonial laws, including the famous Boston Tea Party, in an effort to force their repeal and regain a measure of economic independence from Britain. c. rejected the assertion need to fund a British army in the colonies. d. engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities. e. protested and publicly assailed the use of admiralty courts to try colonial violators of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.
In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States
A. carried out the overthrow of the president of Panama. B. assisted a revolution in Panama. C. surrounded the canal site with a "Great White Fleet." D. organized a trade embargo against Colombia. E. purchased the land for the canal from Colombia.