The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
Answer:
Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam
Explanation:
The Treaty of Paris (1898) officially ended the Spanish-American War. The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories. Cuba technically gained its independence, but United States soldiers remained in the country for years, commonly intervening in the new nation's politics.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same cartoon you posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be a "carpetbagger" since it shows someone from the North coming to the South after the Civil war, mostly likely to take advantage of the crippled economy. </span></span>
Assuming you're still referring to the time leading up to the United States invasion of Iraq, generally speaking economic activity was slow and mostly agrarian.
Answer: 8 percent
The unemployment rate in October, 2012, stood at 7.8% -- with 325,000 jobs having been added that month. By the end of Barak Obama's presidency, the unemployment rate in the nation had dropped to 4.8%. Overall, during Obama's years in office, nearly 12 million jobs were added to the US economy. (11,641,000 jobs, to be exact.) Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.0 percent (after adjusting for inflation). So there was significant economic recovery during the Obama years, but it took time to get that economic recovery going. His first term in office was mostly just stabilizing the economy, and greater growth occurred during the second term.
