If the United States was to become the "great arsenal of democracy," it had to ______________________.
A. take and maintain control over the important oil fields in the Middle East
B. successfully convert major industries from production of consumer goods to production of military materiel
C. convince corporate leaders to finance the retooling of their factories for the production of war materiel
D. solve transportation problems between the United States and Europe
Answer: B
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A. The Department of Commerce extended government grants to "invention factories." B. Congress ordered that technical reports be published explaining all newly awarded patents. C. Congress protected inventions by enacting patent laws. D. The Patent Office was authorized to commission inventors.
Which of the following was not a direct result of the Seven Years' War?
A. France ceded Canada to British control. B. Spain ceded Florida to British control. C. France ceded the Louisiana Territory to the Spanish. D. The Dutch permanently withdrew from the New World. E. Great Britain became the world's greatest colonial power.
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a. Wagnerian operas with their glorification of German folk traditions. b. a variety of racist, nationalist, Pan-German literature often referring to a heroic Aryan race. c. the intense anti-Semitism of Schönerer's Pan-German movement and Vienna's major Karl Lueger. d. the clarity of purpose and positive excitement he experienced in World War I. e. all of the above
Neither Spain nor Portugal possessed colonies in the second phase of colonization.
a. true b. false