chapter 28
Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) for the Soviet Union was:
A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants..
Mao Zedong, a librarian by training, was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:
Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement..
Members of the "Harlem Renaissance" among African American artists and intellectuals felt that to be of African descent:
Made one part of a larger and richer collective history extending beyond the history of slavery..
Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:
Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory..
In early 1918, the Allied position looked:
Precarious, since German forces had been transferred from the Eastern front, and they mounted a spring offensive in the spring.. Incorrect
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:
That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war..
The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:
The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany..
Among the innovative measures enacted by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the "New Deal" were:
The creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929..
During the rapid process of Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, which of the following events took place first?
The fire in the Reichstag
Kemal "Atatürk" introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except:
The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools..
Once Saad Zaghlul and his Wafd party assumed control of Egypt in 1924, they:
Were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports.
