What is true about the Solidarity movement in Poland?
a. It was temporarily crushed by General Lech Walesa in 1981.
b. It failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Catholic church.
c. It was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
d. It lacked solidarity and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
e. It was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.
e
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a. the Egyptian Fatimids b. the Ottoman Empire c. the British Empire d. France
The Ilkhanate consisted of which of the following territories?
A. China and India B. Iran and Iraq C. Egypt and Syria D. Poland and Hungary
As part of the Prague Spring,
a. Alexander Dubcek was elected first secretary of the Communist Party. b. the Brezhnev Doctrine failed to work. c. Gustav Husak rallied reformers to put a human face on communism. d. Czechoslovakia gained independence from East Germany. e. the Czech military resisted the Soviet invasion.
Which of the following is not true of the increasing poverty of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
A) Riots and revolts were a frequent result. B) The Reformation renewed Christian ideals of poverty. C) The poverty came to be seen as a social problem; many of the poor were forced into almshouses and poorhouses. D) Begging was often outlawed but never eliminated. E) Caring for the poor became institutionalized and systematic.