<u>Answer:</u>
Too much spending on the military led directly to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Option: (C)
<u>Explanation:
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- The 'Soviet Union' was much involved in producing goods that were not at all in demand.
- On the other hand, whatever GDP growth they could achieve from such unintelligent economic activities, most of it was being spent on the upgrading of military might.
- Negligible to none spendings were being made on providing welfare facilities to the public.
- This fanned a popular outcry against the government and led to the fall of the 'Soviet Union'.
d. The answer is D because the whiskey rebellion took place from 1791, when a tax over distilled spirits (mainly whiskey in that time in the U.S.) became law, intended to generate revenue for the Revolutionary War debt. It ended three years later, in 1794, when President Washington led a force of over 13,000 men against some 500 violent protesters in Pennsylvania.
This fight, that didn't really take place, led to the formation of two well defined political parties in the United States, the Federalist group stopped being the hegemonic one, making Thomas Jefferson (of the newly formed Republican party) the next president
