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I think Their participation in trade between Europe and the east. Explanation: did this yesterday, sorry if its wrong
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The real answer is FALSE. I got this on my homework :)
President Nixon sent Kissinger for secret talks in China in 1971, pursuing the normalization of relations between two countries and having official consecutive visit by President Nixon in 1972. The reason was to put pressure to the Soviet Union to also improve the relations to U.S.
C) Pedro Cabral claimed land in South America for Portugal, resulting in the use of Portuguese in Brazil today. This happened on the 22nd of April in 1500 with the docking of his fleet on what is now the Brazilian coast. The first Portuguese settlement was in 1532, although colonization started in 1534, when the then King of Portugal divided Brazil into fifteen different territories.
I believe the answer is the first one, mainly because he did not wish to have the war come onto American soil.