The correct answer is D) council management system.
<em>The type of government the city of Springfield is using is a council management system.
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This system of local government combines the leadership and strong attributes of the officials that have been elected with the experience and knowledge of the local government administration.
The council prefers to hire a professional manager to administrate and supervise how the public services are delivered. The manager can offer recommendations to the council because he has enough experience in the field but the council has the last word.
There are all kinds of stories of hostilities between early American colonists and the Native people who were already there. However, these hostilities did not occur with every European group who came. The French are a notable exception to this, and in fact, enjoyed excellent relations with the Natives almost from the very beginning.
Why were the French different? The main reason is that they did not try to change the Natives. They also did not compete with the Natives for land. When the French first came to the Americas in the 1530s and 1540s to engage in seasonal fur trading, they immediately established strong trading ties with the local Natives they found there. The Natives already dealt extensively in furs.
The United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers.
Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world.
