The function of the nation-state in the culture of capitalism is to protect the operation of free markets by ensuring a policy of nonintervention in the marketplace

The British Parliament can be traced back to assemblies of nobles that monarchs called to __________

a. squash peasant revolts b. ratify the Magna Carta c. levy taxes to fund wars d. represent the common people

What two shocks in 1949 ushered in the third and most rigid phase of the Cold War?

a. Soviet explosion of a nuclear weapon and Chinese Communist Party control of the Chinese mainland b. the Berlin blockade and Chinese Communist Party control of the Chinese mainland c. communist control in Czechoslovakia and the Berlin blockade d. Soviet explosion of a nuclear weapon and the Korean War