All of the following were characteristic of the Soviet economy in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods except:
a. Shortages and even rationing of consumer goods were common.
b. Increased efforts were made to industrialize, though at the expense of other sectors.
c. Women entered the workplace in equal numbers to men, as all were considered “comrades.”
d. Employment opportunities were not on a par with those created by the Western recovery.
c. Women entered the workplace in equal numbers to men, as all were considered “comrades.”
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A) provided low-interest loans to Great Britain B) extended Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union C) banned racial discrimination in defense industry hiring D) authorized the internment of Japanese Americans
General Burgoyne’s entire army was forced to surrender at the Battle of __________
A) Trenton B) Bunker Hill C) Yorktown D) Saratoga
The founding of St Augustine, Florida in 1565 by Menéndez de Avilés was prompted by the Spanish
A) fear that the French colony of Fort Caroline near contemporary Jacksonville would be a religious, political, and commercial threat to Spain's control of the Americas. B) fear that the English were on the brink of establishing a colony in Florida that would be a religious, political, and commercial threat to Spain's control of the Americas. C) fear that the Dutch were on the brink of establishing a colony in Florida that would be a religious, political, and commercial threat to Spain's control of the Americas. D) belief that the local Timuca Indians were hording valuable gold and silver.
The Kingdom of Mali
A. profited greatly from the pearl trade. B. was sufficiently dry to enable its farmers to grow corn, as well as sorghum and millet. C. maintained a very active pro-Islamic policy under Mansa Musa. D. rejected Islam in favor of Ethiopian-style Christianity. E. disappeared in the fifth century CE