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Which of the following is NOT true regarding the German invasion of Russia?

At the Munich Conference of 1938 the British allowed Hitler to take territory from which independent country in order to “prevent a war”?

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?