The European welfare states largely arose from __________.

A. attempts to avoid repeating the extremist politics of the Great Depression
B. the demands of a new generation in the 1960s
C. the early-twentieth-century labor movement
D. political maneuvering in the context of the Cold War


Answer: A

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