How did the Versailles peace treaties set the basis for future conflicts in Europe?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Harsh penalties on Germany created long-term resentment and potential for crisis
2. American failure to support the treaties left the United States detached from European affairs
3. German and Russian exclusion from the League of Nations as well as American refusal to join limited its legitimacy
4. Numerous new borders and new states created from the former Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires led to new rivalries
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After 1946, higher education in Western Europe
a. continued to draw students from the wealthier classes until the 1990s. b. saw fees increased in a number of universities and enrollment grew dramatically. c. experienced an influx of students from the middle and lower classes. d. declined because of a severe economic recession. e. heavily emphasized vocational education rather than the traditional curriculum.
Critics dubbed Lincoln a tyrant partly because he
a. raised taxes without Congressional authorization. b. surrounded himself with "yes men" in his cabinet. c. tried to bully the British over freedom of the seas. d. suspended the writ of habeas corpus. e. implemented a draft long before the Union army exhausted the potential supply of volunteers.
Which of the following represents a political compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that was incorporated into the Constitution?
a. Counting all slaves fully as a person in apportioning membership in the House b. Short-term continuation of the foreign slave trade before Congress could abolish this controversial form of human commerce c. Direct election of the president d. Control of interstate commerce by the national government e. Prohibiting states from abolishing slavery in their respective states
The new social sciences in the 1920s were unsettling because they
a. supported notions of Western superiority b. seemed to reward bourgeois values c. invariably led to communism d. challenged Victorian morality e. caused the Great Depression