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Policy of Appeasment a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. Non-Aggression Pact A secret pact between two enemies. (Nazi…

Speech, worship, from want, from fear What were the Four Freedoms articulated by FDR in a 1941 speech? Italy, Germany, Japan During the 1930s, what countries did fascism and militarism…

Senescence: is a gradual physical decline that occurs with age. One of the first visible signs of senescence is/are: wrinkles As we age, the lens of the eye becomes less…

Legitimacy in terms of American elections means the election is nearly unanimously accepted as a fair and free method to select political leaders. Elections in the United States perform which…

Aztec the most famous Indians who lived in Mexico Eastern Hemisphere the hemisphere known as old world Hudson the world’s largest bay Inca most famous Indians in South America migration…

Durkheim referred to patterns of behavior that characterize a social group as ________. A) a social profile B) stereotyping C) social integration D) social facts social facts What distinction did…

How long ago did Earth form? About 4.56 billion years ago What do scientists use to study Precambrian time? fossils from tiny microscopic animals Which of the following gases was…

Sept. 1820 Capt. Alden Partridge founded the first military academy. 1911 Lt. Edgar R. Steevers founded JROTC programs in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 1916 The army adopted JROTC the same year the…

Gilded Age • John D. Rockefeller • ‘Robber Barons’ • Andrew Carnegie • The Rise of the Corporation These items are most associated with which of these eras? Animal &…

jazz the most democratic music ever to evolve, and one which is indigenous to the US Jazz traces its history through the performance of individuals collective improvisation when ensembles create…

The so-called “dumbbell tenement” was flawed in design, exacerbating the already abysmal living conditions of the urban poor. Mary Elizabeth Lease was a prominent Kansas Populist noted for her rallying…

Segregation The separation of blacks and whites, mostly in the South, in public facilities, transportation, schools, etc. Cotton Gin Revolutionary machine developed by Eli Whitney to separate the seed from…

Isolationism. Some people think that 1920 to World War II, for America, was an age of what? Sale of arms to countries in conflict Neutrality Acts passed by congress banned…

What amendment protects freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to assemble, and freedom to petition? first amendment Which president was a big believer in the “common…

Jamestown 1.(1607) first permanent English colony–backed by the Virginia Company 2. a joint stock colony (business venture/investors)–to make money 3. John Smith elected president of colony House of Burgesses first…

Archaeologists in India have discovered that between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E., cultivators built a neolithic society west of the Indus River The earliest known urban society in India was the…

MacArthur American general who was ordered by President Roosevelt to flee the Philippines, but kept his promise when he returned August 9, 1945 date when the US dropped an atomic…

What were the Soviet security concerns? They believed communism was a superior economic system that would eventually replace capitalism and that the Soviet Union should encourage communism in other nations….

1) Mesozoic Era 2) Precambrian Time 3) Cenozoic Era 4) Paleozoic Era 1) b 2) d 3) a 4) c What is a Period A unit of geologic time that…

Freedman’s Bureau government organization aimed at helping black and white southerners who had lost their homes in the fighting Black Codes laws passed in the South to keep freemen in…