1. What allowed Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Fascists in Italy, to become
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1.
What allowed Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Fascists in Italy, to become prime minister in 1922?
A
Mussolini's party ran unopposed in national elections
B
The middle classes voted him into power to block the working-class Communist Party
C
His followers marched on Rome and forced the king to make him prime minister
D
His followers intimidated voters, cast false ballots, and destroyed voting booths in order to secure his election in 1922
2.
Why did Yuri Gagarin cause great concern in the United States?
A
He organized the Soviet missile program and threatened to “bury” the West during a visit to the United States
B
He was the first man to orbit the earth, thus demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in space technology
C
He was the chief scientist on the Soviet nuclear weapons program during the cold war
D
He was the director of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency responsible for spying on the United States
3.
In the early twenty-first century, many people in the less-developed world still died from malnutrition and infectious diseases, despite improvements in health care through the increased use of vaccines and Western medicine; in the West,
A
Noncontagious illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and depression were more lethal
B
There was no malnutrition, and infectious diseases had been entirely eradicated
C
Despite propaganda attempts to claim otherwise, the health situation was similar to that of the developing world
D
Women were far more likely than men to die of malnutrition and infectious diseases
4.
What was one of the lasting effects of World War I?
A
International negotiations and peace conferences were abandoned because they had not prevented the war
B
Certain military terms and soldiers' slang entered common usage, such as lousy, trenchcoat, and basket case
C
The horror of mechanized war caused many munitions manufacturers to question continued innovation in arms making
D
The 1920s were a gloomy decade of retrenchment and cultural stagnation
5.
Why did the Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) impose an oil embargo on the United States and its allies in the 1970s?
A
They were frustrated that Western nations were turning to nuclear energy instead of maintaining their reliance on Middle Eastern oil
B
They were attempting to gain support from the USSR, which the Middle East judged to be in a position of power in the early 1970s
C
They were angry that the United States had offered support to Israel in its conflicts with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan during the 1960s and 1970s
D
They wanted to punish the United States for refusing to trade fairly with non-Western nations
6.
In 1991, a group of antireform hard-liners that included the head of the Soviet secret police attempted a coup in the USSR in response to what event?
A
The Russian parliament's election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Republic
B
Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to further liberalize the Soviet economy and his pronouncement that there was “no alternative to the transition to the market”
C
President Boris Yeltsin's call for the dissolution of the Communist Party
D
Gorbachev and Kohl's agreement that the USSR would completely withdraw its forces from East German soil within the next four years
7.
In what country did British troops fire on nationalists and civil rights demonstrators in a 1972 event known as “Bloody Sunday”?
A
The Falkland Islands
B
Northern Ireland
C
England
D
Scotland
8.
Which political party was founded in Europe in the late 1970s in response to concerns about the environment and unchecked urban growth?
A
The Ecology Party
B
The Green Party
C
The Environmental Alliance
D
The Defense of Natural Resources Party
9.
Which of the following was a major source of discontent in the cities across Europe in the spring of 1917?
A
Government restrictions on various kinds of leisure activities to focus the war effort
B
The use of convicts to perform certain kinds of hard labor in cities
C
Food shortages and deteriorating living conditions
D
The increasing bombing attacks on cities behind the front lines
10.
Why did birthrates in the eastern bloc stagnate?
A
The scarcity of consumer goods, housing shortages, and the lack of household conveniences discouraged women in Communist countries from having large families
B
There were so few men left in Soviet society after World War II that most women would have had to become single mothers, a situation few found appealing
C
A strain of syphilis that spread throughout the eastern bloc during World War II had severely damaged the fertility of a large percentage of the population
D
For the first time, women in the eastern bloc had access to birth control and began to enjoy their newfound reproductive freedom, despite nationalist pleas to reproduce
11.
The “cult of the offensive,” a strategy that officers on both sides in World War I wholeheartedly adopted, was uniquely unsuited to
A
Massive civilian armies, which were wholly unused to lightning-strike military tactics
B
The two-front German battle plan developed by Alfred von Schlieffen
C
The rain-soaked, uneven terrain of northeast France, where most of the war was fought
D
The advanced weaponry developed since the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
12.
New multinational corporations opened factories and employed workers in impoverished areas of the world beginning in the 1960s, but they brought little wealth to such countries. Why?
A
The corporations paid their workers low wages, and company profits mostly went to the shareholders, who usually lived in wealthier countries
B
Too few jobs were created to make much difference in these countries' economies
C
Multinational corporations demanded tax breaks that negated the economic benefits for the countries to which they moved their operations
D
Continuing unrest and government instability kept workers from putting their earnings back into the local economy
What allowed Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Fascists in Italy, to become prime minister in 1922?
A
Mussolini's party ran unopposed in national elections
B
The middle classes voted him into power to block the working-class Communist Party
C
His followers marched on Rome and forced the king to make him prime minister
D
His followers intimidated voters, cast false ballots, and destroyed voting booths in order to secure his election in 1922
Explanation / Answer
1.c) His followers marched on Rome and forced the king to make him prime minister.
After denouncing Italian Socialist Party, Mussolini founded the fascist movement. His supporters marched to Rome and demanded to make him the Prime Minister.
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