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.
Far Oceania was the last of the regions of the world to be colonized by humans.
The three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
Rising sea level threatens coastal communities around the world
Describe the development of atherosclerosis, including its role in the risk of heart disease
Chronic Hunger Is Prevalent throughout the World
World Crude Oil Production, 1900–2010