Look at Map 16.3, The dissolution of the Carolingian empire (843 C.E.) and the invasions of early medieval Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. What has happened to Charlemagne's empire? Why did it fall apart so quickly? What role did the Vikings play in the destruction and rebuilding of Europe?
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a. Francis Cardinal Spellman. b. George C. Marshall. c. General Joseph W. Stilwell. d. the “China Lobby.” e. all of these choices.
German military innovations of World War I included
A) incendiary bombs. B) poison chlorine gas. C) submarines. D) All of the above.
In 1852 the Second Empire in France was created
A) through the assassination of Louis Napoleon. B) when the army overthrew the Republic in a coup. C) when the National Assembly voluntarily disbanded. D) through a bloody revolution in Paris. E) when French voters overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of the empire.
Gen. George McClellan's plan to defeat the Confederates in 1862 involved:
a. launching a waterborne invasion of the York-James Peninsula b. taking control of the Tennessee River c. luring the Confederate Army into Pennsylvania d. occupying the Shenandoah Valley