<u>The correct answer is C. or 3. Israel returned the territory in the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. </u>
Two years ago, in 2017, Egypt celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal in 1982 from the occupied territories of the Sinai Peninsula, in compliance with the Camp David peace accords, at a time when the area was considered an active jihadist center and source of threats, both for Egypt and for Israel. Egyptian President Abdelfatah al Sisi paid tribute to President Anwar al Sadat, who signed the agreements with Israel in 1979.
Question: Under the communist party, organized religion in the Soviet Union was officially:
<em>Options:</em>
- 1) Tolerated
- 2) Encouraged
- 3) Subsidized
- 4) Banned
Answer: The correct answer is: <u>4) Banned.</u>
Explanation: The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an objective the abolisment of religion. The Communist regime ridiculed religion, harassed believers, confiscated church property, and propagated atheism in the schools. The Soviets had originally believed that if churches were deprived of its power, religion would be quickly eliminated. When this did not happen, they took more drastic measures. In Stalin’s purges (1936-1937) tens of thousands of clergy were grouped and shot. In some areas, it even became illegal for parents to teach religion to their own children. From 1917 to the 1980s, the more religion sustained, the more the Soviets would do to eliminate it.
The corporations Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae helped to guarantee private home loans. James B. Lockhart III was the director of FHFA or Federal Housing Finance Agency in the year 2008 and he decided to give two government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship of government enterprises. Fannie Mae was founded in the year 1938.
