What was one reason the United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

In the United States, why were the 1920s known as the Roaring Twenties?

Julli [10]

Answer:

I believe the answer would be C-The country roared along with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

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Effects of the Cuban Revolution on the Caribbean

Komok [63]

Impact of the Cuban Revolution

By most social and economic indicators, Cuba by mid-century was among Latin America’s most highly developed countries. However, in the postwar period it was afflicted with lacklustre economic growth and a corrupt political dictatorship set up in 1952 by the same Batista who earlier had helped put his country on a seemingly democratic path. It was also a country whose long history of economic and other dependence on the United States had fed nationalist resentment, although control of the sugar industry and other economic sectors by U.S. interests was gradually declining. While conditions for revolutionary change were thus present, the particular direction that Cuba took owed much to the idiosyncratic genius of Fidel Castro, who, after ousting Batista at the beginning of 1959, proceeded by stages to turn the island into the hemisphere’s first communist state, in close alliance with the Soviet Union.

The Cuban Revolution achieved major advances in health and education, though frankly sacrificing economic efficiency to social objectives. Expropriation of most private enterprise together with Castro’s highly personalistic dictatorship drove many members of the middle and upper classes into exile, but a serious decline in productivity was offset for a time by Soviet subsidies. At the same time, thanks to its successful defiance of the United States—which tried and failed to overthrow it by backing a Cuban exiles’ invasion in April 1961—and its evident social advances, Castro’s Cuba was looked to as a model throughout Latin America, not only by established leftist parties but also by disaffected students and intellectuals of mainly middle-class origin.

Over the following years much of Latin America saw an upsurge of rural guerrilla conflict and urban terrorism, in response to the persistence of stark social inequality and political repression. But this upsurge drew additional inspiration from the Cuban example, and in many cases Cuba provided training and material support to guerrillas. The response of Latin American establishments was twofold and eagerly supported by the United States. On one hand, governments strengthened their armed forces, with U.S. military aid preferentially geared to counterguerrilla operations. On the other hand, emphasis was placed on land reform and other measures designed to eliminate the root causes of insurgency, all generously aided by the United States through the Alliance for Progress launched by President John F. Kennedy.

Even though much of the reactive social reformism was cosmetic or superficial, the counterrevolutionary thrust was nonetheless generally successful. A Marxist, Salvador Allende, became president of Chile in 1970, but he did so by democratic election, not violent revolution, and he was overthrown three years later. The only country that appeared to be following the Cuban pattern was Nicaragua under the Sandinista revolutionary government, which in the end could not withstand the onslaughts of its domestic and foreign foes. Moreover, the Cuban Revolution ultimately lost much of its lustre even in the eyes of the Latin American left, once the collapse of the Soviet Union caused Cuba to lose its chief foreign ally. Although the U.S. trade embargo imposed on Cuba had been a handicap all along, shortages of all kinds became acute only as Russian aid was cut back, clearly revealing the dysfunctional nature of Castro’s economic management.

Political alternatives

Movement toward democracy

The Latin American countries that did not opt for the Cuban model followed widely varying political paths. Mexico’s unique system of limited democracy built around the Institutional Revolutionary Party was shaken by a wave of riots in the summer of 1968 on the eve of the Olympic Games held in Mexico City, but political stability was never seriously in doubt. A somewhat analogous regime was devised in Colombia as a means of restoring civilian constitutional rule after a brief relapse in the mid-1950s into military dictatorship: the dominant Liberal and Conservative parties chose to bury the hatchet, creating a bipartisan coalition (called the National Front) whereby they shared power equally between themselves while formally shutting out any minor parties. Once this arrangement expired in 1974, Colombia became again a more conventional political democracy, such as Costa Rica had been since before 1950 and Venezuela became in 1958 after the overthrow of its last military dictator.

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QUESTION: How does having written rules about how Congress

topjm [15]

Explanation:

Becuse when someone says to the country that this is your country rules then on first day everyone will apply the rules but as the time passe pupils will be careless thats why tha laws are written in a book That is called The Book Of Law

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Courts decide points of law, not points of fact.

lisabon 2012 [21]

Answer:

the supreme courts decide points of law, some cases that prove this are

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Established supremacy of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws over state laws

United States v. Lopez (1995) Congress may not use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a

federal crime

LOR-2: Provisions of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights are continually being interpreted to balance the power of government

and the civil liberties of individuals.

Engel v. Vitale (1962) School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Compelling Amish students to attend school past the eighth grade violates the free exercise clause

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) Public school students have the right to wear black

armbands in school to protest the Vietnam War

New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) Bolstered the freedom of the press, establishing a “heavy presumption against

prior restraint” even in cases involving national security

Schenck v. United States (1919) Speech creating a “clear and present danger” is not protected by the First Amendment

LOR-3: Protections of the Bill of Rights have been selectively incorporated by way of the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process

clause to prevent state infringement of basic liberties.

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case

Roe v. Wade (1973) Extended the right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion

McDonald v. Chicago (2010) The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is applicable to the states

PRD-1: The 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause as well as other constitutional provisions have often been used to

support the advancement of equality.

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Race-based school segregation violates the equal protection clause PRD-2: The impact of

federal policies on campaigning and electoral rules continues to be contested by both sides of the political spectrum.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) Political spending by corporations, associations, and labor unions is a

form of protected speech under the First Amendment CON-3: The republican ideal in the U.S. is manifested in the structure

and operation of the legislative branch.

Baker v. Carr (1961) Opened the door to equal protection challenges to redistricting and the development of the “one person,

one vote” doctrine by ruling that challenges to redistricting did not raise “political questions” that would keep federal courts

from reviewing such challenges

Shaw v. Reno (1993) Majority minority districts, created under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, may be constitutionally

challenged by voters if race is the only factor used in creating the district CON-5: The design of the judicial branch protects the

Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful

judicial practice.

Marbury v. Madison (1803) Established the principle of judicial review empowering the Supreme Court to nullify an act of the

legislative or executive branch that violates the Constitution

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3 years ago

How did the Cold War affect life in the 1950s?

VMariaS [17]

Answer:

c)Fear of the atomic bomb combined with prosperity made it a time of

contrasting emotions

Explanation:

Here is a quote from my online textbook [(https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/0077024125/cfi/6/1336!/4/2/2/[email protected]:1.57) United States History and Geography by McGrall Hill Education, on page 622]

"the country was enjoying postwar prosperity and optimism. That spirit, combined with McCarthyism, fears of Communist infiltration, and the threat of atomic attack, made the early 1950s a time of contrasts. As the 1952 election approached, Americans were looking for someone or something that would make them feel more secure."

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