Which of the Following Was True of Wartime Food Rationing

question 80

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was true of wartime food rationing after the failure of the potato crop in 1916?

• A) The diets of the German poor improved.
• B) The diet of the German population was limited to one thousand calories per day.
• C) Food scarcity led to widespread cannibalism in Europe.
• D) Civilians' diets remained completely unchanged while prisoners of war were starved.
• E) Many Americans starved.

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