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What was the primary purpose of fighting in Africa?

Which of the following was one of the first countries to know about the horrible killing of the Jews by the SS but did not share this information?  

Which of the following did Roosevelt NOT have influence over? 

A woman was planning a vacation in a faraway city. She was hoping to see a certain popular theatre performance while she was in town, but tickets for the show were sold in person at the theater’s box office. She feared that the show would be sold out if she waited to purchase tickets when she arrived in town, so on June 1, the woman mailed a letter to an old friend who lived in the city asking him if he would purchase the tickets for her in exchange for a $100 fee. The friend replied by letter on June 5th that he would do so. But on June 6th, he decided that he didn’t feel like waiting in line for the tickets after all so he sent a text to the woman telling her that her request was too much to ask of him and that he would not get the tickets for her. The woman received the friend’s text immediately. She was disappointed in her friend’s response and did not reply to his text. Still really wanting to see the show, she immediately purchased tickets from an online ticket broker for a $500 fee. On June 7, the woman received her friend’s letter. When the woman did not contact her friend again, he began to feel guilty. On June 8, the friend purchased tickets at the box office and then called the woman to let her know. The woman told her friend that the tickets were no longer needed, and she would not pay him the $100. Insulted, the friend angrily told the woman that he would sue her for breach of contract. Will the friend be successful in his breach of contract action?

A chainsaw manufacturer sent an offer to a home improvement store, offering a dozen chainsaws for $6,000. The home improvement store’s buyer personally mailed back to the manufacturer the store’s standard printed acceptance form. However, the buyer wrote in large letters in her own hand on the form, “Our liability on this contract is limited to $100.” Two days later, the manufacturer received the communication from the home improvement store. A week later, the manufacturer had sent no additional communication to the home improvement store. If the additional term in the home improvement store’s acceptance limiting its liability on the contract is found to be a material alteration of the manufacturer’s offer, what is the relation- ship between the parties?

A pedestrian sued a driver after the driver’s car hit the pedestrian at an intersection. The pedestrian claims that the driver ran a stop sign and the driver contends that the pedestrian darted out into traffic. The pedestrian seeks to call her friend to the stand to testify that the pedestrian is an extremely cautious person who invariably obeys traffic laws. Should the judge admit the friend’s testimony?

As a young man was leaving his home, two police officers approached him and placed him under arrest for the robbery of a convenience store. As the young man was entering the squad car, he yelled to his girlfriend, “Call my lawyer and tell her what happened; I don’t want to sign anything without her.” The young man was given Miranda warnings on the way to the police station. Meanwhile, his lawyer called the station and told the desk sergeant that she was on her way and to have the young man call her as soon as he arrived. She told the sergeant not to allow questioning until she arrived, and the sergeant assured her that it would be several hours until the district attorney arrived and no questioning would take place until then. When the young man arrived at the station, the arresting officers immediately put him in an interrogation room and questioned him about a carjacking that had taken place two days ago. They did not inform him of the call from his lawyer, but he agreed to talk as long as he did not have to put anything in writing or sign anything without her okay. He made incriminating statements about the carjacking, and he was eventually indicted for that crime as well. Prior to trial on the convenience store robbery charge, the young man’s lawyer moved to suppress the arresting officers’ testimony about the young man’s statements. How should the court rule on the motion?

A bookie testified before a grand jury regarding allegedly illegal gambling activities. As a result, the bookie was indicted and a warrant was issued for the bookie’s arrest, along with a search warrant for the bookie’s home. The police went to the bookie’s home, informed him of the charges against him, and placed him in handcuffs. The officers then conducted a search of the bookie’s home and found a desk calendar, which had possibly incriminating information written on it relating to appointments. They seized the desk calendar and one of the officers asked the bookie what he had to say about their find. The bookie made an incriminating statement in response. Before trial, the prosecutor obtained an exemplar of the bookie’s handwriting to compare it with the handwriting on the calendar. If introduced at trial, which of the following would most clearly violate the bookie’s Fifth Amendment self-incrimination rights?

Some police officers went to an auto body shop with a search warrant to look for evidence supporting a tip that the shop owner was part of a stolen car “chop shop” ring and that he accepted stolen cars and resold the parts. While officers were talking to the owner in the shop’s office, a woman pulled her car into the shop’s garage, where a plain clothed police officer was examining some parts. The woman told the officer, “I need to have my car repaired and repainted right away because I just hit a kid on a bike and the cops will be looking for cars like mine in no time.” Shortly before the woman had entered the garage, the officer had heard over his radio about a hit and run accident involving a child on a bike. The car that the police were looking for was the color and model of the woman’s car, and the damage to the car seemed likely to be from that type of accident. The officer identified himself as a police officer and placed the woman under arrest. He performed a quick pat down of the woman’s outer clothing and looked into the large purse she was carrying. In her purse, the officer found a package that appeared to be (and later proved to be) cocaine. In addition to charges related to the hit and run, the woman was charged with possession of cocaine. At trial, the woman’s attorney moved to have the cocaine excluded from evidence. How should the court rule?

Acting on information from reliable informants that drugs were being sold by residents at a certain fraternity house, the police obtained a search warrant that entitled them to search the entire premises for illegal narcotics. The police arrived at the house when a party was in progress and were admitted to the house by the fraternity president after showing the warrant. Officers proceeded to search the house. In an upstairs bedroom, they found a young woman who was a guest of a fraternity member sleeping on the bed. No one else was in the room. The police found a footlocker under the bed and opened it, finding a variety of illegal drugs. The police then awakened the woman and seized her purse from her. They found a small quantity of marijuana in the purse. The woman was charged with a drug possession offense. At her trial, the prosecution seeks to admit the marijuana seized from her purse over the objection of her attorney. Should the court admit the marijuana?