What best describes the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev?
a. It was completely shut off from Western influences.
b. It stressed worker incentives and increased efficiency in industrial production.
c. It saw heavy industry decline with improvement in agriculture.
d. It threatened to go to war against the People's Republic of China.
e. It had reached parity with the U.S. in nuclear arms, and it allowed some access to Western music and art.
e
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A) was known for his extreme cruelty to his slaves B) introduced Christianity to the West Sudan region C) was one of the wealthiest rulers the world has known D) was massacred by European armies after trying to stop the slave trade
The South's financial war strategy was most like the North's in that
A. both had a National Bank. B. both remained on the gold standard for the duration of the war. C. both issued fiat money (money not backed by any hard currency). D. both were devised by Salmon P. Chase. E. None of the above
During World War II, American shoppers
A. did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort. B. faced many shortages of consumer goods. C. had less money to spend than they had the decade before, but did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort. D. had less money to spend than they had the decade before. E. All these answers are correct.
The crop-lien system:
a. applied only to African-American farmers. b. became better as farm prices increased in the 1870s. c. enabled yeoman farmers to continue to function under the same system as before the Civil War. d. annoyed bankers and merchants who resented how it made them dependent on farmers. e. kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.