The first independence movements among the Soviet republics during Gorbachev's rule occurred in the Baltic area of
A) Afghanistan.
B) Azerbaijan.
C) Lithuania.
D) Georgia.
E) Chechnya.
C
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In nineteenth-century Britain, most members of the aristocracy derived their wealth from
a) manufacturing b) commerce c) finance d) landowndership
How does the top photograph of Texas cowboys in the 1880s refute the image of cowboy life that Charles Russell portrayed in his 1897 painting The Herd Quitters?
A) Cowboy work was unexciting and filled with drudgery. B) Cowboys came from many racial and ethnic backgrounds. C) Cowboys herded cattle in various geographical environments, not just the open plains. D) Cowboy attire was often more flamboyant than what Russell's painting depicts.
When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover
a. was militantly antiunion and against big government. b. brought little administrative talent or experience to the job. c. understood that his major challenge was to find a solution to the Great Depression. d. combined small-town values with wide experience in modern corporate America. e. had been a successful governor of California.
Major developments in Latin America since 1955 have included
a. large increases in the incomes of peasants and industrial workers. b. sharp reductions in foreign debt in the 1970s, as governments worked to reduce outsiders' control of their economies. c. an end to the cultivation of coca and marijuana in the region by 1990. d. an increase in the number of democratic regimes in the 1980s and 1990s. e. the outbreak of serious interracial conflict, often sparking large urban riots and frightening outbreaks of savage "ethnic cleansing."