Why did the United States witness a baby boom in the postwar years?
A) With no legal access to birth control, Americans could not control their fertility.
B) High divorce rates meant that men remarried and formed a second family.
C) Welfare aid for single women with children subsidized irresponsible pregnancies.
D) The average marriage age was going down, and people married earlier and earlier.
D) The average marriage age was going down, and people married earlier and earlier.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) keep the territories it had acquired during the war B) accept responsibility for starting the war C) join the League of Nations as a mandate D) create a unified state with German-speaking Austria
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A) the world was much smaller than it is. B) he could reach India by sailing west. C) the world was flat. D) the world was much larger than it is. E) he was carrying sufficient supplies.