A) lowered tariffs to increase trade.
B) encouraged trade only with Latin America.
C) continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War.
D) was reversed only after World War II.
E) sought protection for key U.S.industries through high tariffs with competitive European and Latin American countries.
G) All of the above
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A) Hitler conquering Spain and establishing Nazi occupation of Spain during World War II.
B) the Loyalists from winning the war.
C) Roosevelt and Francisco Franco becoming personal friends and strategic allies.
D) the Soviets successfully defending the Spanish Republic from Spanish Fascist forces.
E) Spain becoming a Fascist dictatorship after Franco's victory.
G) All of the above
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A) cooperated closely with other nations in the London Economic Conference.
B) extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union.
C) abandoned the armed interventionist policy toward Latin America articulated in the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
D) promised independence to the Philippines.
E) sought closer ties with Canada and Mexico.
G) A) and C)
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A) inflation in the United States was reduced.
B) the United States was voted out of the League of Nations.
C) tensions rose between the United States and Britain.
D) the United States began to pull out of the Depression.
E) the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened.
G) B) and C)
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political leader who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. He was also the premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Stalin's historical significance is multifaceted and has had a profound impact on the course of the 20th century.
Born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia, in 1878, Stalin rose to power following the death of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. Stalin managed to consolidate power and eliminate his rivals during the 1920s, eventually becoming the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union.
Under Stalin's rule, the Soviet Union underwent drastic economic and social changes. He implemented a series of Five-Year Plans aimed at rapidly industrializing the country and collectivizing agriculture. While these plans did transform the Soviet Union into a major industrial power, they also led to widespread hardship, including famine and the displacement of millions of people.
Stalin's regime is also known for its repressive nature, characterized by the Great Purge (also known as the Great Terror), during which hundreds of thousands of people were executed and millions more were sent to the Gulag, a vast network of labor camps. His government maintained strict control over society, including censorship of the media and the suppression of political opposition.
During World War II, Stalin's leadership was crucial in the Soviet Union's role as part of the Allied Powers. The Red Army's defeat of Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front was a turning point in the war and came at a tremendous cost, with millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians losing their lives.
Stalin's foreign policy after the war contributed to the onset of the Cold War. The Soviet Union's establishment of communist governments in Eastern Europe, its rivalry with the United States, and the race for nuclear weapons defined global politics for decades.
Stalin's death in 1953 marked the end of an era. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced Stalin's cult of personality and began a process of de-Stalinization, signaling a shift in Soviet policies and international relations.
In summary, Joseph Stalin's historical significance lies in his role in transforming the Soviet Union into a superpower, his leadership during World War II, and his contribution to the political and ideological landscape of the 20th century, which was marked by authoritarianism, widespread human rights abuses, and the shaping of the geopolitical tensions that characterized the Cold War era.
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A) the countries borrowing funds of America to purchase arms and material would default on their debt.
B) America's strict neutrality in the European war had been breached.
C) Lend-Lease would eventually draw the nation into the war itself.
D) the program would become rife with corruption and cronyism.
E) None of these choices are correct.
G) C) and D)
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A) were beginning to question the increased aid given to Britain.
B) while still wanting to keep America from formally entering the war, supported providing generous military assistance to Britain to prevent it from falling to Nazi Germany and favored Roosevelt's series of embargoes on Japan-bound supplies and raw materials.
C) enthusiastically embraced the idea that America would enter the war.
D) did not oppose Japan's conquests in East Asia.
E) were ready to fight Germany but not Japan.
G) All of the above
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B) refused to provide any military or economic assistance.
C) gave only nonmilitary aid to Russia.
D) made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets.
E) sent U.S.ships to Soviet naval bases.
G) B) and D)
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A) personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie.
B) belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis.
C) belief that the two-term tradition was contrary to democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution.
D) opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality.
E) None of these choices are correct.
G) A) and C)
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