Analyze the economic and social recovery programs instituted under Clement Attlee's Labour Party
What will be an ideal response?
Taking over after Churchill in 1945, the Labour Party established a policy that was somewhat isolationist in nature with regard to Great Britain. The feeling was that the people of Britain had been told to suffer and work to help other people for a long period of time, and now it was the government's turn to repay that. Attlee set about creating state-run institutions that were the basis of the welfare state in Britain, including nationalized medicine, social security, a Bank of England, and nationalized infrastructure such as transportation, coal, and steel industries. An educational mandate was passed that required public education until at least age fifteen and that provided funds to build schools and paid tuition for eligible students to go to university. The sweeping welfare measures worked both because of the conciliatory mood of the Conservatives, who continued the policies of the Labour Party after they came to power in the 1950s, and also because of the economic funds available through the Marshall Plan.
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All of the following joined the NPT except
A) the United States. B) the Soviet Union. C) Iran. D) Israel. E) North Korea.
How was the public sphere enlarged in Japan to help increase interest in politics?
a. increase in open community forums to discuss grievances b. widening the delivery area for newspapers c. spread of education d. mandatory membership in political groups
Discuss the general characteristics of the progressive movement in the United States and indicate how successful you think the movement was in reforming American society
What will be an ideal response?
Islam and Christianity usually spread into sub-Saharan Africa
A. solely because of military conquest. B. as an uneasy and cumbersome mixture of Islamic and Christian concepts. C. because of the failure of Judaism to capture a larger audience. D. as syncretic versions of the originals. E. as religions picked up by runaway slaves.