As part of the Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey. This occurred in 1947 when the U.S. feared greater Soviet and communist influence in these two countries which were facing grave political and economic crises.
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Gas is burned → boiling water makes steam → steam turns turbines → energy is converted
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Answer: Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the second successive election in which the incumbent president was defeated, after Carter himself defeated Gerald Ford four years earlier in 1976.
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The correct answer is option B.
Edmond Halley correctly predicted the return of the eponymous comet Halley after he realized several sightings of a comet were in fact the same comet.
By correctly understanding Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity and also his ideas in mathematics, Halley was able to correctly predict that the comet that now bears his name would return periodically. He did this by discovering Halley's orbit in 1716 and thus being able to predict the year of its return.
