24.1 Futile Search for Stability

General rise in prices

• collective bargaining

• depression

• active government

• deficit spending

• inflation

period of low economic activity and high unemployment

• collective bargaining

• depression

• active government

• deficit spending

• inflation

right of unions to negotiate with employers

• collective bargaining

• depression

• active government

• deficit spending

• inflation

a way for governments to help end a depression

• collective bargaining

• depression

• active governing

• deficit spending

• inflation

nature of Roosevelt's New Deal

• collective bargaining

• depression

• active government

• deficit spending

• inflation

The League of Nations was less effective for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• the United States did not join

• the United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles

• League members could not agree to use force against aggression

• President Wilson did not support the idea

The Great Depression was caused primarily by

• economic downturn and the US stock market crash

• failure of nations to reduce their military forces

• new interest in Marxist theory

• strengthening of European banks

The Weimar Republic was hurt by all of the following EXCEPT

• a hostile middle class

• serious social problems

• too much spending on the German military

• the Great Depression

The economist John Maynard Keynes argued that

• depressions should be allowed to resolve themselves

• depressions were uncurable

• unemployment came from a decline in demand for goods and services

• free economies never worked

The French New Deal program started by France's Popular Front

• solved the depression in France

• improved wages and hours for workers

• weakened workers' rights

• increased confidence in the French political system