Answer:
B. Answers the research question
Answer:
It has been 155 years. Slavery was abolished in the year 1865.
Answer:
The Battle of Waterloo was in 1815. It was fought in the present-day province of Waterloo Brabant, Belgium.
Explanation:
The Battle of Waterloo is acknowledged as the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), the set of wars led by Bonaparte in his expansionist attempts in Europe. He aimed to establish France hegemony on the continent and to spread the French Revolution ideals throughout the region.
It was Bonaparte's preparation in 1803 for these future wars that led him to sell the French territories in North America to the newly independent United States. The event became known as Louisiana Purchase.
Answer: D) 3500 bc
Explanation:
Slavery operated in the first civilizations (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BCE). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE), which refers to it as an established institution.
Answer:
True.
Explanation:
The French military defeat at Dien Bien Phu at the hands of the Vietnamese communist guerrillas of the Viet Minh in 1954 sealed the fate of French colonial rule in Indochina.
The Geneva Conference was called to hammer out and get a political agreement for Vietnam with the participation of the great powers and the Vietnamese. The Geneva Accords sanctioned the division of the country into a northern and southern parts, and called for free elections to reunite Vietnam. However, because of fears of a communist victory in the elections, the United States and the West did not allow the vote to take place, and Vietnam remained divided into North Vietnam (communist state) and South Vietnam (pro-Western).
