What did Mikhail Gorbachev intend to do under perestroika?
a. Frighten the United States with more military spending
b. Create a more free and open political culture in the U.S.S.R.
c. Turn all power over to the people
d. Restructure the economic and political systems
e. End communism and adopt western-style democracy
d
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The spectacular continual rise in stock market prices reflected
a. rapidly increasing corporate profits. b. rapidly expanding productive capacity. c. declining corporate profits. d. an expectation that stock prices would rise even higher based on the operation of “the greater fool” principle. e. all of these choices.
What was the “polyglot” bible?
A) Erasmus’ first Greek edition of the New Testament B) A parallel edition of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew C) The first vernacular translation of the bible D) The first printed bible E) None of the above.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech
A. saw King call for a significant shift in tactics in the quest of civil rights. B. was made before a joint session of Congress and the Senate. C. was made shortly after Lyndon Johnson become president. D. was given during the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history. E. was given to commemorate passage of the Voting Rights Act.