The new leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail ________, unleashed momentous changes when he proclaimed policies of openness and restructuring.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Gorbachev
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The emancipation of Russian serfs fell far short of liberating the peasantry for all of the following reasons except:
a. Former serfs had to make annual payments to the state, to pay back long-term government loans. b. The decree took two years to be fully enacted. c. Newly freed serfs were encouraged to emigrate to the Kingdom of Poland and farms were abandoned. d. Land was turned over to the control of local mirs, which in turn allocated parcels to individual serfs.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the role of middle-class women in the first half of the 1800s?
a. Mothers forfeited to the new public schools their roles as moral guides for their children. b. Women were seen as the moral and cultural arbiters of society. c. Women were no longer important as a source of income for the family. d. The new concept of domesticity clearly marked women's role as "in the home" and men's role as "in the world." e. Women were seen as being of a higher moral quality than men.
Loyalist sentiment was thought to be stronger in the South than in the North.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The detention and relocation of 100,000 Japanese-Americans in 1942 is evidence that
A) in wartime civil liberties were violated even in democratic countries. B) widespread Japanese sabotage had threatened the war effort. C) they were needed for factory work and would not do it voluntarily. D) the United States was more racist than Nazi Germany. E) without military protection, Japanese-Americans would have been murdered by American civilians.