World History Questions

The Cold War started with building tensions between the US and the USSR during World War II. As Stalin began to annex more countries and spread communism throughout Eastern Europe, the US began to feel threatened and feared that they would start a war amongst the capitalist nations. The US started an attempt to limit the spread of communism and protect capitalism, which led to a series of passive aggressive and indirectly hostile exchanges between the two nations.

The beginning of the end of the cold war, the Berlin Wall came down. The USSR began to collapse the following year, in 1990.

When the FTC was created in 1914, its purpose was to monitor all business practices to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce as part of the battle to "bust the trusts."

Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices.

Quakers are members of a group with Christian roots that began in England in the 1650s. Sir William Penn was an English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.

Pitt's India Act (1858)

In April 1500, Brazil was claimed by Portugal on the arrival of the Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Alvares Cabral.

From the history,

The Erie Canal was completed in 1800's

The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and after that the American Revolution was started in the same 1776.

The Iroquios Confederacy was formed early when the Europeans first began comonizing, may be early in 1600's.

So, from the above data of history, Iroquois tribes formed the Iroquois Confederacy was the event that occured first among the options.

The Progressive Movement:

Today, you hear the term ''progressive'' discussed a lot in politics, but progressivism is not a new concept. It was first used to describe policies and interventions of the late 19th to early 20th century, by reformers who felt the need for societal changes.

The first Progressives felt called to action in response to the conditions of poverty, inequality, and corruption that were pervasive during the 19th century.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame is located in paris(France) . It was one of the earliest French Cathedrals to be built in the Gothic style. It was built between A.D 1163 and AD 1270. About the 12th century, a new style- the Gothic -was developed in France.