Americans' fervent isolationism in the 1930s can best be attributed to
a. their regrets about participating in WWI.
b. bitter memories of the ungrateful nations that defaulted on their WWI debts.
c. the totalizing impact of the Great Depression and the need to focus on getting out of it.
d. the failure of most Americans to appreciate the gravity of the prospective threat to American national security posed by the militaristic, expansionist forces being harnessed during the 1930s by the Fascist dictators of Germany, Japan, and Italy.
e. All of these choices are correct.
Question 2
The Americans With Disabilities Act
a. passed only when Congress overrode President George H. W. Bush's veto.
b. prohibited discrimination against 43 million citizens facing mental or physical challenges.
c. required the government to hire disabled Americans.
d. provided scholarships and student loans to people with physical or mental disabilities.
e. None of these choices are correct.
Figure 7.1 shows the rapid decline in the trust of Americans in government since the 1960s. This de
Attributed to Apollodorus, Column of Trajan, Rome (detail).
A mere one-half percent of Americans owns over a quarter of the entire nation’s wealth. Very few ...
Distribution of the Income of Americans
Most Americans obtain their drinking water from a community water system
A giant dust cloud about to descend on a farm in Kansas during the 1930s