Author Question: Which statement best describes how Americans viewed the postwar world and the United States' role in ... (Read 107 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Which statement best describes how Americans viewed the postwar world and the United States' role in it?

a. Americans retained their optimism and hoped to spread their ideals of democracy and market-driven economic efficiency.
b. Americans wanted to take advantage of the chaos in Europe and impose their political and military agenda unilaterally.
c. Although the strongest nation in the world after the war, the United States suffered a collective crisis of confidence.
d. As in World War I, the United States reverted back into its historical isolationist posture.
e. With the developed world mostly destroyed by the war, Americans became interested only in the economic and political affairs of Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.

Question 2

Women in ancient India

a. were legally owned by their husbands and male children.
b. were never permitted to study the Vedas or own land, but could often serve as gurus.
c. never married before the age of twenty-one years.
d. were in theory required that a widow throw herself upon her dead husband's funeral pyre.
e. were barred from even viewing the ritual of sati.