Which of the following was not characteristic of Soviet society during the Brezhnev years?
a. A more restrictive attitude toward dissidents.
b. An educational system focusing on rote memorization and political indoctrination.
c. Preventing the Soviet people from exposure to harmful foreign ideas, including rock music.
d. A restriction of free expression.
e. A disregard for law and order.
e
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A. a persistent white grub infestation that destroyed the sugar cane B. the end of the slave trade C. diminishing profits as the island soil "played out" D. warfare conducted by escaped slaves
A major financial problem that confronted mid-eighteenth-century America involved the __________
a. heavy debt owed to the British b. colonists' refusal to buy English products c. shortage of gold and silver coinage d. colonies' failure to print paper money e. lack of credit available to merchants
The Spanish were the first to sail down the western coast of Africa, establishing trading posts, called factories.
a. true b. false
Why did the town of Fayetteville, North Carolina, grow so dramatically during World War II?
a. It became the site for a Japanese-American internment camp. b. The town hosted about 200,000 German prisoners of war. c. Military authorities placed an airbase there. d. The Manhattan project was developing the nuclear bomb there.