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Following a period of massive economic growth between 1945 and 1970, the U. S. economy began to stagnate in the 1970s.  

President Reagan’s policy of being “soft on communism” smoothed the way for later compromises by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.  

The hulls of German U-boats were thin enough to be easily pierced and sunk.  

Which of the following did NOT contribute to U. S. involvement in the Spanish-American War? 

Which of the following was NOT one of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points?

In World War I, Germany and France became locked in a stalemate along hundreds of miles of trenches for years.

Which of the following describes attitudes about government in the Gilded Age?

The gruesome murder of this 14-year-old boy in Mississippi shocked the nation.  The outcome of his murder trial highlighted the injustices of a legal system that supported the violent repression of African Americans.  What was his name?

Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, valued the rights and lives of the Soviet people over his own political agenda.  

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI also known as the Star Wars program) discouraged the Soviet development of nuclear power and ended the arms race.