Answer:
The right choice is:
C) sought to reduce foreign corporations’ control over his country’s economy.
Explanation:
Jacobo Arbenz was a nationalist leader and a top military officer with strong social concerns in a country with enourmous social inequality and class differences. He became Guatemalan president in 1951, supported by the army and leftist parties. He instituted social and economic reforms to improve the situation of the poor, but this caused the disatisfaction of the conservative sectors such as the wealthy landowners and the top military officers. His policies that aimed to reduce the influence and control over Guatemalan economy by US big companies - like the United Fruit company - also displeased the American government. The Eisenhower administration deeply mistrusted his real intentions and came to believe he was a communist (he was not). Arbenz was overthrown by a military coup orchestrated by the CIA in 1954.
<u>Answer</u>:
There were few reasons why North America didn’t develop any major civilizations similar to the mayans.
<u>Explanation</u>:
It is usually said that weather around Arid-America was rough. So, it was difficult to cultivate crops without use of modern machinery. There were lesser number of water bodies. So, keeping large number of people was difficult.
Present day US did have advanced type of civilization, but it did not get close to the mark of Aztecs or Mayans. North America had large cities, advanced societies and culture that were rivals of the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs. But they were less in numbers so were unidentified.
British support for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine
1. a
2.b
3.a
4.d
5.b
6.a
7.c
8.c
9.a
10.a
11b.
12.c
13.b
14.d
15.a
16.d
17.d
18.c
19.b
20.a
