Answer:
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, which usually includes obvious weapons, transport vehicles, communication sites, and industrial resources. However, anything useful to the advancing enemy may be targeted, including food stores and agricultural areas, water sources, and even the local people themselves, though the last has been banned under the 1977 Geneva Conventions.
Kuwaiti oil fires set by retreating Iraqi forces in 1991
The practice can be carried out by the military in enemy territory or in its own home territory while it is being invaded. It may overlap with, but is not the same as, punitive destruction of the enemy's resources, which is usually done as part of political strategy, rather than operational strategy.
Notable historic examples of scorched-earth tactics include William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, Kit Carson's subjugation of the American Navajo Indians, Lord Kitchener's advance against the Boers, and the setting of fire of 605 to 732 oil wells by retreating Iraqi military forces in the Gulf War. Also notable were the Russian army's strategies during the failed Swedish invasion of Russia, the failed Napoleonic invasion of Russia, the initial Soviet retreat commanded by Joseph Stalin during the German Army's invasion during the Second World War, and Nazi Germany's retreat on the Eastern Front.
The concept of scorched earth is sometimes applied figuratively to the business world in which a firm facing a takeover attempts to make itself less valuable by selling off its assets.
Answer: The Han dynasty developed a civil service system to:
A)reward soldiers for military service
B)to encourage higher learning among the youth
C)find and hire officials who held Confucian values
Explanation: Chinese civil service, the administrative system of the traditional Chinese ... It later served as a model for the civil service systems that developed in other Asian ... initially adopted by the succeeding Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce), but in 124 bce ... Almost all Song officials in the higher levels of the bureaucracy were recruited
The greatest impetus for Oklahoma statehood<span> began after the Land Run of ... Before the passage of the</span>Oklahoma<span> Enabling Act (1906), </span>four statehood plans<span> evolved. ... </span>Indians<span> in O.T. were held in trust by the federal government for twenty-</span>one<span> ... Indian leaders and whites in Indian Territory (I.T.) </span>favored<span> double</span>statehood.<span>The Territory of </span>Oklahoma<span> was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that ... Until this point, </span>Native Americans<span> had exclusively used the land. ... was </span>one<span> of the main supporters of the opening of </span>Oklahoma<span> to white settlement. .... due to the growing idea of </span>statehood<span>, which had originated in Indian Territory.</span>
Answer:the Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery.
Explanation:
In the 1970s, the supply of gas was affected by price controls imposed by the Nixon administration and then by an oil embargo by Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
As a political move aimed at pleasing voters, President Richard Nixon announced in 1971 (prior to his reelection campaign of 1972), "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.” The wage and price controls the Nixon administration sought to put in place interfered with natural market forces and oil supplies were reduced. That problem was magnified in 1973 when oil exporting countries in the Arab world imposed an embargo on supplies to the United States due to US support of Israel in a war that Israel was fighting against a coalition of Arab states.
Both factors -- lingering efforts at price controls and continued control of the oil and gas market by OPEC nations -- played into the long lines at gas pumps seen in America in the 1970s.
