Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The industrial activity in Asia and Latin America in the mid-1700s was decades behind that of Europe.
2. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the center of the world economy was in China and India.
3. The failure of global cooperation on things like the exchange rate is blamed for the rise of fascism in Germany and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union.
4. When the Bretton Woods System ended, its institutions also shuttered.
5. As a result of the War on Terror, the United States and its allies have spent the past decade in protracted wars, but not against other states.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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