How Does This Photograph of U

question 28

Multiple Choice

How does this photograph of U.S. and Soviet troops greeting each other on a bridge spanning Germany's Elbe River at the end of World War II contradict imminent diplomatic relations between these two nations?

• A) Both nations would be openly fighting each other in a military conflict.
• B) Both nations would be in a Cold War with each other over competing ideological views, escalating a nuclear arms race, and dealing with global confrontations.
• C) Both nations would agree to mutual military disarmament and collaboratively lead peace- keeping forces from the United Nations.
• D) Both nations would revert to isolationism and avoid establishing strong global presences.

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The symbol representing the standard deviation in statistics, a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

Dispersion

A statistical measure that describes the spread of or variation in a set of data values.

Variation

The difference in data set values from the mean, highlighting the dispersion or spread of a set of data points.

Quartile

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