How did the Chinese government respond to pirate attacks in the 16th century?
A) turned a large part of its army into a naval force
B) improved defenses and abandoned many coastal areas
C) negotiated away the rights to several islands
D) faced the pirates openly and defeated them
E) refused to believe that the pirates posed a serious threat to their control
B
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Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship included all of the following EXCEPT
A) a secret police force. B) highly popular and well attended Fascists youth organizations. C) press laws that censored publications that challenged the state. D) the degree of totalitarian control found in Russia and Germany in the 1930s. E) control of the Italian parliament after 1924.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China
A. remained unchanged. B. was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. C. was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist. D. was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there. E. improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia.
The system of technology and organization that included the practice of hiring workers to perform the same specialized task over and over again was first utilized by and is most associated with
A. Gottlieb Daimler. B. Henry Ford. C. Rudolf Diesel. D. Carl Benz.