2091. On June 6, 1944:
A. France was liberated by the Allies.
B. the Allies landed at Normandy.
C. the Allies crossed the Rhine.
D. the Soviet army marched into Berlin.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
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2092. Which of the following countries did not experience authoritarian regimes in the 1930s?
A. Yugoslavia.
B. Czechoslovakia.
C. Hungary.
D. Romania.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2093. Thomas Hart Benton and Diego Rivera were similarly in that they:
A. used their art to detail the hopes and struggles of ordinary people.
B. were both anti-communist reactionaries.
C. were members of Bauhaus.
D. had an enormous influence on non-western cultures.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
2094. On Easter Sunday, 1916:
A. a group of nationalist revolted in Dublin.
B. dominion status was given to Catholic Ireland.
C. the Irish free states were establish
D.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
2095. The Civil War in Russia pushed the Bolsheviks to a more radical economic stance called:
A. NEP.
B. war communism.
C. the first Five-Year Plan.
D. the second Five-Year Plan.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2096. What event pushed Weimar’s political system to the breaking point?
A. the Dawes Plan.
B. the Great Depression.
C. the French invasion of the Ruhr.
D. Hitler’s putsch of 1923.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2097. In 1924 election the Nazis polled:
A. about 6.6 percent of the vote.
B. strong support from the German middle classes.
C. a majority of the workers on the left.
D. well over 46 percent of the vote.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
2098. On October 28, 1922, Mussolini’s “Black Shirts”:
A. assassinated Victor Emmanuel.
B. Joined the revolutionary group, II Popolo d’Italia.
C. marched to Rome.
D. None of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2099. The Soviet collectivization of agriculture in the late 1920s:
A. was entirely consistent with the policies of NEP.
B. resulted in the near “liquidation of the Kulaks as a class”.
C. prevented the onset of a Russian famine.
D. was welcomed by the peasantry.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2100. On November 9, 1918:
A. the imperial government of Germany was overthrown by a bloody revolution in which hundreds were killed.
B. the German Kaiser was assassinated.
C. Hitler created and took over leadership of German Workers’ Party.
D. the German republic was declared.
✅ The correct answer is option D.