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  Pressure to confront the Soviet Union led the United States to allow many former Nazis to resume their lives in Germany after putting the most prominent surviving leaders on trial at ________ in 1945–1946.  

  In Nazi Germany’s attempt to blur class distinctions in order to infuse a new national spirit in all Germans, they created many organizations, such as the ________ for young children.  

A nurse is teaching a patient who will begin long-term glucocorticoid therapy for chronic asthma. Which of the following statements by the patient indicates a need for further teaching?

  The British suffragist ________ was the founder of the Woman’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organization that adopted tactics of militancy and civil disobedience.  

  When the Mensheviks regained control of the Social Democratic Party, ________ broke away with a splinter group of Bolsheviks.  

A nurse is reviewing the medication list of a patient taking high-dose prednisone for systemic lupus erythematosus. Which of the following findings should the nurse recognize as a common adverse effect of long-term glucocorticoid therapy?

A 38-year-old female has undergone a transsphenoidal hypophysectomy for Cushing disease caused by a pituitary adenoma. On postoperative day 1, the nurse notes the following assessment findings: BP: 90/60 mmHg HR: 112 bpm Complaints of severe headache Large amount of clear nasal drainage on the dressing Sodium level: 128 mEq/L Urine output: 1,200 mL in the past 4 hours Which of the following should the nurse do first?

Match the following clinical scenarios with the correct type of urinary incontinence. 

A 25-year-old woman presents with complaints of excessive thirst, urination, and fatigue over the past few weeks. She reports needing to drink more than 5 liters of water daily and has to urinate frequently during both day and night. On examination, she appears mildly dehydrated, with dry mucous membranes, but her blood pressure is normal. Laboratory tests show a low urine osmolality of 150 mOsm/kg and a high serum osmolality of 310 mOsm/kg. Which of the following clinical manifestations is most characteristic of diabetes insipidus?

  J. Robert Oppenheimer warned that the ________, which was developed in the 1950s, was a “weapon of genocide.”