What was the purpose of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which was created in 1944?
What will be an ideal response?
Providing a predictable monetary environment for trade
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Which of the following is true of law enforcement officials in late-nineteenth-century American cities?
A. They often had to answer to various groups that differed on their views of the law and how it should be enforced. B. They were merely volunteers with no professional training or status. C. They were far more consistent in how they applied the law to various social classes and ethnic groups than is the case in today's society. D. They usually showed far more leniency in applying the law to the disadvantaged.
Why was Muslim scholarship slow to make inroads in medieval Western culture?
A) Western intolerance of Islam led scholars to distrust any books or ideas that passed through Muslim hands. B) Muslims saw their scholarship as sacred and refused to share it with the West. C) Arab speakers never learned to speak other languages, preventing the spread of their ideas. D) Muslim scholarship was far behind European intellectual life of the time. E) The few Muslim texts that reached the West were full of errors, leading Western scholars to dismiss all Muslim sources.
The most famous and most strongly integrated regional bloc is
A. the European Union. B. ASEAN. C. the Warsaw Pact. D. OPEC. E. NAFTA.
In which area did good harbors, abundant forests, rocky soil, and a short growing season most influence the colonial economy?
a. Southern colonies b. Middle Atlantic region c. Northwest Territory d. New England colonies