<u>The United States never attempted to disengage from world affairs and embrace isolationism</u>, but quite the opposite. Even before World War II ended, the US took a leading role in shaping the postwar world, especially through the conferences of Teheran in 1943, Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 that brought "The Big Three" together (Franklin. D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Iosif Stalin). The United States was also a founding member of the United Nations in 1945, and was designated as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Answer and Explanation: "On a map, the Fertile Crescent looks like a crescent or quarter-moon. It extends from the Nile River on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of Turkey in the north. The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf." - Fertile Crescent, History
A pocket veto is only possible if "<span>C. Congress is about to adjourn", since Congress must be out of session and therefore unable to take back the bill in order for such a veto to be possible. </span>
