D) created a rapidly increasing demand for unskilled or semiskilled labor.
Women weren’t allowed to have a strong voice in the way things worked back then
Germany was the aggressor nation. The event described was the <u>siege of Leningrad</u>, part of Germany's World War II aggression against the Soviet Union. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, a total of 872 days. More than 1,000,000 Soviet civilians died during the siege. (German forces had finally weakened by then.)