Was there a “back door” to World War II, as some revisionist historians have asserted? According to this view, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, inhibited by the American public’s opposition to direct U.S. involvement in the fighting and determined to save Great Britain from a Nazi victory in Europe, manipulated events in the Pacific in order to provoke a Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thereby forcing the United States to enter the war on the side of Britain
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This famous writer was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay on December 30th, 1865, after his mother Alice Macdonald, a methodist minister’s daughter, and his father John Lockwood Kipling, an artist, moved there so John could work as the director of an art school. Kipling lived happily in India until he was six, when his father sent him back to England to study. At sixteen Kipling returned to his parents in India and worked on the Civil and Military Gazette, also writing and publishing a number of poems and stories. Kipling returned again to England in 1889 where he gained fame and credibility with his publication of Barrack-Room Ballads. In 1892, he married an American, Carrie Balestier, sister of his dear friend and sometimes partner, Wolcott Balestier, and settled with her in Vermont. There he wrote Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books, and Carrie gave birth to their first two children, Josephine and Elsie. The family moved to England in 1896 and settling in Rottingdean, Sussex the next year. Here their third child John was born. Unfortunately their daughter, Josephine, died during a family visit to the U.S. in 1899. Around this time Kipling was deemed the “Poet of Empire” and produced some his most memorable works, including Kim, Stalky & Co., and Just So Stories. In 1907, Kipling accepted the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1915, his son John died in the battle of Loos, during World War I. Kipling continued to write and became involved in the Imperial War Graves Commission. In January 1936, Kipling died, but not before the completion of his autobiography Something of Myself.
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Booker T Washington
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Booker T Washington was the person who started the tuskegee normal and industrial institute in alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.
Booker T Washington born April 5, 1856-November 14,1915) was a African-American, educator, author, orator, leader in the African American community, a foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born into slavery, Booker put himself through school and became a teacher after the civil war.He crusaded for educational opportunities for African Americans,because of his passion for the minorities he started the Tuskegee normal and industrial institute in Alabama where black children could learn skills which will enable them to function as a citizen and cater for themselves.
He was the first president and developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University)
Cotton was grown specifically for the purpose to be sold
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C) It was dangerous for workers to go on strike because companies were willing to use force to break up a strike.
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The Homestead strike was an open and violent confrontation between the union workers of the Homestead steel mill and the administration of that mill. This event would become one that resonates with workers union revolts and the fight for workers' rights.
Emma Goldman, in her autobiography "Living My Life" reveals how she and Sasha a.k.a Alexander Berkman participated in the demand of the workers' rights. And through her account of the event, we can know that going on strike was a dangerous thing for workers because companies use force to dissolve the strike, even if it leads to extreme steps.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.
