What change in government policy took place at the end of world war i? a) the federal bureaucracy was desegregated. b) the size of the military was drastically reduced. c) income taxes were increased to pay off the war debt. d) unions were given the right of collective bargaining.

The right answer is B. It is not uncommon that after a major conflict a country downsizes its military force. This occurred, for instance, in the United States, and this was seen as an opportunity to reform the Army. England, where the military consisted in part of volunteers, also rushed to demobilize its force. Germany, on the contrary, was forced to drastically reduce the size of its military force as a result of the signing of the Versailles Treaty (1919).  

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

roosevelt essentially took the opposite approach as hoover in taking on the great depression. herbert hoover thought that america and its economy could naturally recover from the depression in due course, so he adamantly restrained the federal government from intervening on behalf of the people affected. on the other hand, roosevelt dramatically increased employment by expanding the federal government and establishing agencies that would aid in relieving some of the country's worst problems.