<span>Germany was required to pay massive reparations in the aftermath of WWI, which led to the country's devastating economic situation.</span>
Constantinople (known today as Istambul). It sits on the Bosphorus Strait, a waterway that separates Asia from Europe.
This is because both Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were unincorporated territories of the United States with the U.S president as head of State. There was no need to patrol Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as the U.S blockade was against Cuba, not against the two U.S territories.
The correct answer is D.
The commitees in the US Congress are legislative sub-organizations, and each develops specialized knowledge on its subject (Agriculture, Armed Services, or Financial Services, for example).
The comitees supervise on-going governmental operations, identify matters that should be analized through legislative review, they compare and evaluate legislative alternatives; identify policy problems and propose possible solutions and they recommend courses of action to be discussed in the Congress chambers.
<u>Comitees are fundamental and completely inherent to the legislative process undertaken in Congress</u>, as it is not possible that Congress members are specialists on every subject discussed in the chambers and therefore they have to rely on the valuable information elaborated by the comitees in order to reach appropiate decisions.
