The term "Iron Curtain" refers to __________
A) the border between North and South Korea
B) the military operation in which the United States dropped the atom bomb on Japan
C) the railroad system that was restored in Europe after World War II ended
D) the separation between Soviet-dominated Europe and Western Europe
E) the seemingly insurmountable class divide in postwar Western Europe
Answer: D
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A) high tariffs B) rising unemployment C) declining farm prices D) speculation in the stock market
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Middle-class reformers targeted which of the following issues as an impediment to a healthy and politically stable population?
A. working conditions B. housing conditions C. the large lower class D. political rights
Massachusetts responded to Shays's Rebellion with a
A) reduction of taxes. B) new issue of additional paper money. C) moratorium on private debts. D) dispatch of armed militiamen.