What were some of the results of the war for the countries engaged in it? Consider the various forms of destruction and dislocation discussed in the chapter
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Categories of results should include casualties from combat, hunger, and disease; destruction caused by bombings; homelessness; concentration camp deaths; and the huge number of refugees.
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A) women should renounce all contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes. B) women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings. C) the Second World War had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males. D) a "sexual revolution" was impossible and discouraged women outside of France from taking up her ideas. E) there was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.
President Clinton's primary political legacy was that he
a. revived the vigorous liberal traditions of the Democratic party. b. established a firm direction for American foreign policy after the Cold War. c. consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government. d. restored faith in elected officials if not in big government. e. turned the Democratic party away from his historic commitments to racial and social justice.
Former slaves soon discovered that the acquisition of land depended on __________
A) the help of plantation owners. B) the attainment of literacy. C) the intervention of the federal government. D) the help of northern religious societies.
How did President Roosevelt attempt to halt Japanese aggression between 1940 and 1941?
A) by applying economic pressure on Japan through a trade embargo B) by waging an undeclared war against Japanese naval forces in the Pacific C) by signing mutual defense pacts with other Asian nations D) by securing legislation allowing the United States to send troops to China E) by using an executive order to send troops to fight on Japanese soil