Who became leader of the U.S.S.R. in 1985?
a. Leonid Brezhnev
b. Boris Yeltsin
c. Mikhail Gorbachev
d. Vladimir Putin
e. Boris Spassky
c
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What was the fate of Timur Lenk's conquests after his death?
A) They were divided among his sons. B) They disintegrated. C) They became the Ottoman Empire. D) They emerged as a new Persian Empire.
The New Sciences were allowed to flourish in northern Europe, especially in the Netherlands and England, mainly because of:
a. The Habsburg monarchs' ban on the collection of botanical samples in the New World. b. A great sympathy for the New Sciences on the part of religious authorities. c. A certain liberty of investigation that other areas lacked. d. The birth of all of the era's important scientists in Protestant lands.
What actions did the Soviet Union take after the Cuban missile crisis passed?
A. They began the largest weapon buildup in their history. B. They invaded Cuba and disregarded its sovereignty. C. They launched a limited attack on Turkey, where American missiles had been placed. D. They ordered Cuba not to trade with the United States.
Between 1774 and 1777, the French
A) remained indifferent toward the affairs of England and her colonies. B) repeatedly expressed their sympathy for colonial pleas for political liberty and republican government. C) secretly funneled war goods, loans, and subsidies to the American colonists. D) sided with Britain because they saw the American Revolution as a threat to monarchy and imperial authority.