Why did Richard Nixon use the phrase "silent majority" to refer to moderate
and conservative Americans who supported the Vietnam War?

A. Surveys in 1973 showed that 85 percent of Americans were in
favor of the Vietnam War but didn't say so.

B. Antiwar protestors threatened violence against anyone who
publicly supported war, so many people kept quiet.

C. He claimed his supporters saw no need to stage protests, so they
got no media attention.

D. Nixon's supporters considered war protestors un-American, so
their votes did not count in his election,

the correct answer is d

the two atomic bombs dropped on japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. the uranium bomb detonated over hiroshima on 6 august 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of tnt.

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answer by mimiwhatsup: c. british impressment involved attacking and boarding neutral merchant ships and forcing the captured crew to serve in the royal navy.

source: "british impressment, or practice of taking or seizing american sailors from american trading ships and forcing them into the british navy." ()