France was similar to Germany in that
a. eastern France suffered from high unemployment while western France and Paris prospered due to tourism.
b. the French secret police, the equivalent to East Germany's Stasi, had become corrupt, blackmailing politicians and businessmen.
c. the political center was threatened by an extremist political party, the Greens.
d. resentment against foreigners, particularly Muslims from North Africa, led to an anti-immigrant movement headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front.
e. the confusion and chaos of the time led to political instability, and in France it led to the collapse of the Fifth Republic.
d
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Charles De Gaulle did NOT
a. see France increase its gross domestic product while he was in office. b. create the Fifth Republic. c. increase the power of the office of president. d. come to power because of the Algerian crisis. e. endeavor to make France a major nuclear power.
Which of the following statements about the establishment of the South’s color line in the late nineteenth century is LEAST accurate?
a. Jim Crow laws transformed public spaces into private ones in which only whites could move freely, and turned blacks into second-class citizens. b. Jim Crow laws faced fierce opposition from rich white southerners who found themselves barred from bringing their servants into whites-only areas. c. Jim Crow laws were challenged most notably in cases of segregated transportation facilities. d. Black women played a prominent role in opposing Jim Crow laws, despite the physical dangers to which they exposed themselves by doing so.
In the ancien régime, the head of a ministry was always a __________.
A) merchant B) courier C) foreigner D) nobleman
Which of the following was NOT one of Lenin?s demands of April 16, 1917?
A) all power to the Soviets B) elimination of all Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries C) nationalization of all land D) immediate peace with the Central Powers E) a revolution against social oppressors