Author Question: Hopeful signs of improved international relations in the 1920s included all the following EXCEPT ... (Read 32 times)

geodog55 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The rise of amusement as a commercial activity in the late 1800s took place for which of the following reasons?

a. Immigrants brought sports with them from Europe.
b. Employers wanted to draw workers' attention away from union organization.
c. Labor-saving devices brought a substantial increase in leisure time.
d. City reformers believed organized amusements would relieve working-class boredom and reduce the urbancrime rate.

Question 2

Hopeful signs of improved international relations in the 1920s included all the following EXCEPT

a. smooth functioning of the new League of Nations.
b. the 1921-22 Washington Naval Conference, which produced a ten-year moratorium on new naval battleship or heavy cruisers.
c. the 1925 Locarno Pact in which Germany guaranteed not to violate the borders of any of its neighbors.
d. the admission of Germany into the League of Nations in 1926.
e. the renunciation of war by most powers in the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.