1. The correct answer is: A. They were able to sign an agreement that forbid the import of Italian goods but that really did nothing.
The emperor of Abyssinia asked for the intervention of the League of Nations. The League condemned the Italian actions and imposes economic sanctions, but does not include exports of coal, oil and steel to Italy. It did help much.
2. The correct answer is: B. Morality of nuclear warfare
The consequences of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war began the debate on the dangers of a nuclear war that could wipe out entire nations
. The human damage is too big and it began to be questioned if the use of this weapons was ethical even in war.
3. The correct answer is: C. Make German leader accountable for the Holocaust.
The Allies held this Trials at the end of World War II in which the responsibilities of leaders, officials and collaborators of the Nazi regime were determined and sanctioned. It includes war crimes and of course, the Holocaust.
“ B ” converted the Irish to Christianity
Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the relative importance of Nature and Nurture.
<em>Plato</em> introduced the term nativism (<em>Nature</em>) as the idea that our thoughts, ideas and characteristics are inborn. In other words, we are believed to be born with these thoughts, ideas and characteristics, and that they are already in our genes.
On other hand, Aristotle introduced the idea to us of empiricism, or <em>Nurture</em>. He described this as, knowledge is gained through experience (senses). Our thoughts and ways are not because of our genetic make-up, but because of how we were raised and brought up by our parents and overall lifestyle.
So, a good answer to this would look at the following:
Economy:
The big difference between the North and South was the divide between industrial and agrarian. The Southern economy was heavily based on farming tobacco and cotton and used slave labor. The Northern economy developed into an industrial economy.
Social Structure:
Again, the Northern live was based around industrial bases located in urban centers. So, Northern social structures were based on merchant class structures while the Southern structure was based on who owned the largest plantation.
Daily Life:
Go into city v. country
Social Attitudes:
This is where the divide on slavery emerged. Religious differences between Unitarianism and Episcopal/Baptist faith fueled this
The concluding paragraph:
The question is asking you to take what you talked about above, particular in regards to geography, social structure, and daily life and apply it to the West. Does the West at the time sound more like New England's industrial urban centers or the South's spread out plantations in need of cheap workers?
According some authors which discuss this theme there were some factors as:
1) At the middle of 1850 the Chinese were still under British rule and the conditions were very difficult.
2) The devastation of southern Chinese by the taiping rebellion. This destroyed the rural economy and killed more than twenty millions people.
3) The gold was discovered in California in 1848. It produced a big immigrations at the final of century 17th.
