Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out
a. in Moscow in late 1918.
b. after working class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd.
c. in Warsaw after the 1916 crop failure.
d. after the Memorial Day Massacre of steel workers.
e. after the police murdered a Socialist Revolutionary leader in the Winter Palace.
b
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Leonid Brezhnev
A. valued stability above all, blocking significant attempts to deal with economic/social problems. B. greatly increased the funding for new agricultural areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. C. sharply reduced the powers of the KGB and Interior Ministry. D. was the first to finally break with Stalinism and to conciliate the Czech regime. E. was a sincere admirer of the policies of Nikita Khrushchev.
What was one of the most important causes that drove European nations to increase their taxes in the mid-eighteenth century?
A. They wished to settle more colonies in the New World. B. They wished to import more slaves from Africa. C. They wished to increase their trade networks. D. They had to pay off their war debts from prolonged wars. E. The parliaments in Europe spent extravagantly and required increased revenue.
The stalemate of trench warfare arose in the West at which site of battle?
a. Marne b. Ypres c. Verdun d. Artois e. Somme
When playing baseball, Spike misses an easy catch and then throws the ball over the first baseman's head. The best-worded critical response to his action would be _______
A) "I'm sure you won't make such an idiotic play next time." B) "Don't worry about it. No one is going to be upset by your mistake." C) "You're taking your eye off the ball before you actually field it." D) "You're a good player. You're just trying to act too quickly."