Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) for the Soviet Union was:
a. A continuation of the policy of “war communism”, in which the Red Army was sent into the countryside to requisition food.
b. A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants.
c. A failure, since it never returned the Soviet Union to prewar levels of industrial production.
d. A catastrophe for the peasants, with between 6 and 14 million farmers forcibly removed, and the majority killed outright or worked and starved to death.
b. A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants.
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Mao Zedong's New Democracy
A. was designed to expel the Turkic population from western China. B. moved slowly at first, in order not to alienate the peasants. C. gave private land to five percent of peasant families, to increase collectivization. D. was patterned on Stalin's "Open Society" plan. E. was modeled upon that found in France during the "Terror."
Japan's samurai class was most similar to which of the following?
A. China's civil bureaucrats B. India's Brahmins C. the mamluks of the Abbasid empire D. European vassals
How did the "Protestant ethic" imparted by Horace Mann's education system influence the American people?
a. Americans made moral judgments using personal beliefs. b. People learned to perform routine work conscientiously. c. Americans became more creative. d. People were heavily influenced by a central church.
The former Yugoslavian province where war broke out in 1999 and that required the intervention of NATO was
a. Slovenia. b. Bosnia-Herzegovina. c. Kosovo. d. Serbia. e. Croatia.