Which of the following best explains how this photograph from the Second World War can be connected to the Cold War that began shortly afterward?
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It shows the technological advances made by one of the victors of the Second World War that solidified its position as a postwar superpower.
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The image is best understood in which of the following contexts of both the Second World War and the Cold War?
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The continued importance of industry in improving military capacity
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The image could best be understood as evidence for which of the following developments?
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The shift in the global balance of power associated with the Second World War
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Which of the following best explains Niebuhr's likely purpose in recounting Soviet actions in postwar Europe?
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By pointing out the hypocrisy of Soviet policies, he hoped to encourage a more confrontational stance on the part of the United States government.
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Which of the following most likely explains why Niebuhr chose to publish his article in a popular publication like Life magazine?
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To change government policies in a democratic country like the United States, it was first necessary to change public opinion.
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Which of the following best explains Niebuhr's sense of alarm about Soviet intentions in occupied Eastern Europe?
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He was concerned that Americans would be reluctant to see their recent allies in the Second World War as a threat.
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Which of the following developments or processes in the late twentieth century best explains the participation of foreign troops in the Angolan Civil War, as shown in the two photographs?
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The proliferation of Cold War proxy conflicts
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The confrontation illustrated in the two photographs can be seen as a specific example of the global rivalries in the period after 1945 that also directly produced which of the following?
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The NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances
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Which of the following developments in the period after 1945 most directly prevented localized conflicts such as the one illustrated in the two photographs from escalating into global wars?
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The threat of the use of nuclear weapons
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Which of the following aspects of the immediate historical situation in China in 1958 best explains the author's perspective in the passage?
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Chinese leaders had made it clear that meeting the goals of the Great Leap Forward was the highest priority facing the country.
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Which of the following best explains why the passage is likely NOT a reliable source of information regarding the level of popular support and enthusiasm for the Chinese government's push for iron and steel in 1958?
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As a government official, the author would have felt compelled to overstate the success of communist policies of resource redistribution to demonstrate his loyalty to the party.
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Which of the following best explains the significance of the intended audience of Yin Zeming's pamphlet in shaping the author's narrative?
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Since it targets an international audience across the Cold War divide, the pamphlet presents an idealized, propaganda-tinged vision of Chinese accomplishments.
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As indicated by the passage, Vietnam's achievement of independence differed in what way from the achievement of independence by many other former colonies?
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Vietnam gained its independence through a violent uprising rather than a negotiated settlement.
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As portrayed by Ho Chi Minh in the passage, the Vietnamese independence movement appears most similar to which of the following types of nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century movements?
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Nationalist movements
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Compared to the position of anticolonial movements earlier in the twentieth century, the prospects for movements such as Ho Chi Minh's in the mid-twentieth century could most accurately be described as
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stronger because the Second World War weakened imperialist powers
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Which of the following best explains why the author brings up the example of the Sikh migrant cutting his hair before coming to England as a way of supporting his argument that the experiences of South Asian and European immigrants to Britain were "poles apart"?
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Unlike European immigrants, South Asian immigrants had to suppress parts of their culture and remove important religious symbols to fit into British society.
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The argument in the third paragraph regarding the connection between the Partition of India in 1947 and Punjabi migrations to Britain in the 1950s is most directly supported by the author's claim that
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resettling Partition refugees led to an economic crisis in rural Punjab, leading to further population movements
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Contrary to the author's implicit argument in the second paragraph regarding South Asian migrants' determination to integrate into British society, the migration of former colonial subjects to imperial metropoles typically resulted in
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the preservation of cultural and economic ties between former colonies and metropoles, as immigrant communities maintained some connections to their countries of origin
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Which of the following best explains Lt. Colonel Ojukwu's purpose in including the information in the first paragraph in his independence proclamation?
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He wanted to outline a list of East Nigerian grievances in order to justify the political action he was about to take.
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Which of the flowing best explains how the immediate historical situation of the proclamation of Biafran independence from Nigeria informed the author's statements in the third paragraph?
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Claiming to uphold the rule of law and oppose government corruption had become the norm for those seeking political power, even for military leaders seeking to challenge elected governments.
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Based on the author's point of view, it is most likely that the information presented in the passage
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overstates the extent to which Northern Nigerians were responsible for undermining the united Nigerian state
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The passage can best be used to illustrate which of the following developments in the 1970s and 1980s?
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The way in which government efforts to suppress criticism and restrict freedom of speech proved ineffective in stemming public discontent within communist regimes
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As expressed in the passage, Havel's vision of effecting change in the communist bloc was most consistent with which of the following developments?
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Grassroots citizens' organizations forming to protest the economic and social injustices in the Communist bloc, such as the Solidarity labor union in Poland
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In addition to the factors exemplified by the passage, the end of the Cold War was also directly hastened by all of the following EXCEPT
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the signing of nuclear arms control treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union
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