Author Question: In the early 1970s, a. Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and, two years later, of Hong ... (Read 88 times)

savannahhooper · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

In the early 1970s,

a. Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and, two years later, of Hong Kong.
b. Yuri Andropov made major changes in Soviet industrial management by giving top positions in the oil and transport industries to executives from Japan and the West.
c. Richard Nixon praised Mao Zedong's mass line system as not only effective but as American as apple pie.
d. Stalin's reputation rose somewhat under Brezhnev's rule.
e. Lyndon Johnson ended the Vietnam War.

Question 2

During the late 1960s and the 1970s,

a. annual economic growth in the Soviet Union was between eight and eleven percent.
b. freedom of statement became much more common in the Soviet Union, shown by the awarding of literary prizes and pensions to Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
c. even Soviet airplane crashes and governmental scandals received tasteless and extensive press coverage under Brezhnev's open society policies.
d. the problems of economic stagnation and political and administrative gerontocracy were effectively ignored under Brezhnev.
e. the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution improved education and economic growth in China.