Which statement about the number of wars and war deaths in the last 50 years is most accurate?
A. In the past 25 years there have been several direct conflicts between the world's strongest military powers.
B. More people died in WWII than have died in conflicts in the last quarter century.
C. More people died in Iraq during the U.S. occupation than died in the Iran-Iraq War.
D. More people in the last quarter century have died in conflicts than died in WWII.
Answer: B
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A) Guinn v. United States (1915). B) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). C) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). D) Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of western state governments regarding woman suffrage?
A) They believed that the West was a place where "men were men and women were women," and only men should vote. B) They generally supported woman suffrage, sometimes hoping that it would attract women, families, and economic growth. C) They preferred to wait and see how the "experiment" of woman suffrage would work out in the more progressive eastern states. D) It was not a major concern, because there were few women in most western states. E) They refused to grant women suffrage because they feared women would vote for prohibition, put an end to gambling and brothels, and in general "clean up government."
What was the focus of most laws in the Code of Hammurabi?
a. Holding the upper classes accountable to the lower classes b. Holding the lower classes accountable to the upper classes c. The management of the economy d. Marriage and family e. The behavior of local officials
The largest impediment to establishing Marxism in Asia and Africa was a. lack of Christianization to argue against b. a traditionally egalitarian society c. economies based predominantly in agriculture without an industrial revolution. d. the presence of long-term royal dynasties
e. populations without a significant form of media coverage to spread Marxist ideas.