What steps did the United States take to increase its role in the postwar world?

How did the leaders and decisions made at the Potsdam Conference differ from those at the Yalta Conference?

How did the leaders and decisions made at the Potsdam Conference differ from those at the Yalta Conference?

How do you think totalitarian regimes will affect the peace following World War I?

Do you think the U.S. military made the right decision or the wrong decision when they decided not to bomb railway lines leading to the death camps? Explain your reasoning.

Do you think the U.S. military made the right decision or the wrong decision when they decided not to bomb railway lines leading to the death camps?

What actions did the Nazis take to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution?"

What actions did the Nazis take to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution?"

How did Hitler and the Nazis gradually deprive Jewish people of their rights?

How were the employment experiences for women and African Americans the same? How did they differ?

"Now we all found the loss of Captain Smith; yea, his greatest maligners could now curse his loss. As for corn provision and contribution from the savages, we had nothing but mortal wounds, with clubs and arrows ....

"Nay, so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs ....

"This was that time, which still to this day, we called the starving time. It were too vile to say, and scarce to be believed, what we endured; but the occa­- sion was our own for want of providence, industry, and government, and not the barrenness and defect of the country .... For till then in three years, for the numbers were landed us, we have never from England provision sufficient for six months."

-John Smith, description of "starving time" in Virginia, $1607-1614$

When the Virginia colony was first formed, control over it rested with

(A) an elected assembly

(B) the king

(C ) Captain John Smith

(D) shareholders of the joint-stock company

Which was more important, military or industrial mobilization? Give two reasons for your answer.

An insurance company estimates that it should make an annual profit of $150 on each homeowner's policy written, with a standard deviation of$6000. a) Why is the standard deviation so large? b) If it writes only two of these policies, what are the mean and standard deviation of the annual profit? c) If it writes 10,000 of these policies, what are the mean and standard deviation of the annual profit?

Why do you think it was so important to the Allies for Operation Overlord to succeed? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.