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Fill in the blanks: When the government subsidizes an activity, resources such as labor, machines, and bank lending will tend to gravitate __________ the activity that is subsidized and will tend to gravitate ___________ activity that is not subsidized.

The ________ were the result of an international effort to broker a peace between Palestinians and Israel, and they established an autonomous Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat.

Following the collapse of the German army, Russia regained many territories but failed to retake

The Allied Powers’ extensive borrowing of funds from the British resulted in the hobbling of France as a financial power and the rise of the United Kingdom as a financial power within Europe after the war.

In the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev, education was aimed at

As with Germany, war and the politics of the Cold War left the nation of ________ divided between communist and “Western” halves.

Many Western intellectuals sought to revive humanism and democratic values after the horrors of the Second World War; a group of writers, one of whom was ________, pointed out that colonialism made their task ever more difficult.

In what way did the Japanese of the 1930’s and 40’s differ from the Germans and Italians?

Verdun was of little strategic importance but was a symbol of France’s strength and morale.

In Mussolini’s Italy, the economy was largely dependent on