It could be claimed that all of the following contributed to ...

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Question 1

A dramatic social development affecting the status and expectations of women in Western Europe since the 1960s has been
 
  A) moves by conservative governments to pass legislation making it far more difficult for women to work outside the home.
  B) the effective lobbying of the European Catholic churches to outlaw abortion and restrict the sale of contraceptives.
  C) the collapse of European social welfare states under the burden of rapidly aging populations.
  D) an increase in birth rates across Europe because of increasing prosperity and more leisure time.
  E) a persistent decline in birth rates across Europe, with Spain's becoming the lowest in the world.

Question 2

It could be claimed that all of the following contributed to Islamic terrorist activity against the West EXCEPT
 
  A) the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  B) the rise of fundamentalist Islam with the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
  C) the stationing of US forces in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
  D) the defeat of Muslim Pakistan by India in Kashmir.
  E) the Iraq war, which resulted in many civilian casualties and the torture of prisoners by American troops.

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Answer 1

E

Answer 2

D

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