The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it "(3) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization <span>(NATO)" which contained the Soviets. </span>
D.retreating to one’s own “corner.”
<span>Human societies and their interactions have led to divisions of territories into countries and various other subdivisions. While these divisions are at their root artificial, they are important to geographers in the discussion of interactions of various populations</span>
So they could have more of a say?
The passage is:
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom...."
The correct answer is C) explain the higher purpose of the civil war.
<em>According to the passage, Abraham Lincoln's chief purpose of the address was to explain the higher purpose of the civil war.
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The excerpt of the passage is from The Gettysburg Address, of Abraham Lincoln.
The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches of Abraham Lincoln. This speech was delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863.