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Which of the following is a true statement concerning the role played by women in World War II?

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German and Japanese women were less likely to work in war factories than Soviet and American women.

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How did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

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Hitler became chancellor by lawful election: his Nazi Party won the largest number of delegates to the German parliament, and he was invited to form a government.

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Which statement best describes the U.S. role in World War I?

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The United States entered the war late but played an important role in the defeat of Germany.

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Which of the following statements best describes Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy?

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Mussolini came to power in an election, but voters were intimidated by the considerable violence of his followers.

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Which of these statements is true of fascism in Germany but not Italy?

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Its members claimed racial superiority and made a policy of persecuting minorities.

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What was the New Deal?

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A collection of reforms intended to restart economic growth in the Depression-era United States

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Which of the following is an accurate statement of the Nazi attitude toward women?

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Women's place is in the home where their role as mothers serves a vital function for the family and the state.

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What was the Marshall Plan implemented by the United States after World War II?

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It was a plan to rebuild and reshape the shattered European economies in Western Europe.

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Which of the following factors helped lead to the outbreak of World War I?

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The development of war plans that spelled out in great detail the movement of men and materials at the outbreak of war

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Which of the following is a reason why Japan adopted authoritarianism in the early twentieth century?

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Reaction against the hardships of the Great Depression

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What two new major states disrupted the balance of European power in the late nineteenth century?

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Germany and Italy

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Which of the following was a motivation for the United States to invest $12 billion dollars in the Marshall Plan?

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Genuine humanitarian concern

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Which of the following statements best describes fascism?

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Fascism was a political ideology that advocated intense nationalism and a sense of national destiny.

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Which of the following factors helped lead to the outbreak of World War I?

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Intense nationalism in Europe

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Which of the following states enjoyed significant economic growth in the 1930s, while the rest of the world was sunk deep in the Great Depression?

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USSR

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Which institution was established after World War II to regulate the global economy in order to prevent another depression?

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International Monetary Fund

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Which of the following was true of Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s?

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All three governments were highly authoritarian and intensely nationalistic.

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Suspecting that they were aiding their enemies, Ottoman authorities during World War I massacred or deported an estimated 1 million

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Armenians.

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Which of the following is a reason why the Nazis were able to rise to power in Germany?

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Most Germans were disgusted by the Weimar Republic's inability to ease the effects of the Great Depression.

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Which of the following reflected the balance of power in Europe between 1815 and 1870?

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A fragile and fluctuating balance of power had generally maintained peace among Europe's major powers.

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Why did leadership of the West pass to the United States at the conclusion of World War II?

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The United States was physically untouched by the war.

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Which of the following was an effect of the Great Depression in Latin America?

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Authoritarian populist governments took power across the region.

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Who was the prominent British economist in the first half of the twentieth century who argued that government actions and spending programs could moderate the recessions and depressions to which capitalist economies were prone?

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John Maynard Keynes

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Which of the following was a factor that contributed to the Great Depression?

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American farms and factories were producing more goods than could be sold.

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What distinguished Japanese authoritarian government in the 1930s from that of Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany?

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Japan created a less repressive and more pluralistic society than either Germany or Italy.

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What role did nationalism play in the outbreak of World War I?

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Millions of ordinary Europeans actively supported the decision to go to war in defense of their nations.

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What ultimately pulled the United States out of the Great Depression?

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Massive military spending upon entry into World War II

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What did the United States require of Western European countries who wished to receive aid under the Marshall Plan?

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They required that the European recipients of aid cooperate with one another.

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What is import substitution industrialization as promoted by governments in Latin America during the Great Depression?

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It was a policy designed to achieve greater economic independence by manufacturing goods for the domestic market that used to be imported.

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Which of the following was a goal of "democratic socialism" in Britain, France, and Scandinavia during the Depression?

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They sought a more equal distribution of wealth.

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Which of the following was a condition of the Treaty of Versailles?

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Jews were promised a national homeland in Palestine.

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Which of the following is true of President Roosevelt's New Deal program?

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It sought to create a social safety net for the poor.

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In what region did Japan launch a series of new military operations in 1940-1941 to secure natural resources?

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European colonial possessions in Southeast Asia

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Why did leadership of the West pass to the United States at the conclusion of World War II?

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The United States accounted for 50 percent of world production in 1945.

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Which of the following statements best reflects Japan's access to strategic raw materials in the early 1940s?

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Many in Japan saw its very survival as linked to its ability to obtain secure access to natural resources by force.

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Which of the following was a development that affected women in the aftermath of World War I?

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Some women known as flappers flouted traditional social and cultural norms.

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What was an outcome of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949?

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The United States committed itself to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union.

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Which of the following is true of Japan as compared to Western Europe in the decades following World War II?

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Japan was more dependent on the United States for its military security than Western Europe.

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Which of the following best summarizes the impact of the Marshall Plan implemented by the United States after World War II?

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It was successful beyond anyone's expectations.

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Which of the following is true of President Roosevelt's New Deal program?

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It created a number of government agencies that regulated and supervised the economy to an unprecedented degree.

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How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870?

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Germany's arrival disrupted the established order.

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Which of the following was a factor in causing the Great Depression?

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Speculation on the stock market

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Which of the following was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism?

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An insistence on a racial revolution

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What effect did World War II have on communism?

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It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power.

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In contrast to what transpired during World War I, Germany during World War II was able to

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conquer France quickly.

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What effect did the U.S. Marshall Plan have on European economies?

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It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe.

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Which of the following characterized European and American culture in the 1920s?

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A new consumerism

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Which of the following represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression?

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Import substitution industrialization

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Which of the following appealed to fascists?

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Nationalism

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Which of the following resulted from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?

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The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war.

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Which of the following committed the United States to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after World War II?

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Which of the following contributed to Western European recovery after the devastation of World War II?

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The ability of Western European countries to integrate their economies

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