WH Ch 17 sec 1 QUIZ The Futile Search for Stability (eng-esp

Inflation that is high and out of control , prices increase so fast and by enormous amounts that the money becomes worthless.

• deficit spending

• inflation

• hyperinflation

• Gasoline

What were 2 reasons why the League of Nations was ineffective?

• The US was not in it and it had no military

• It was not well funded and the Soviet Army was larger

• Delegates argued and never accomplished anything and the U.S blocked everything

• Because countries did what they wanted and they had no control over Africa

What caused banks to fail, a rise in homelessness, social ills, and the rise of dictators starting Oct 29th, 1929?

• Start of WWII

• The Great Depression

• The election of Franklin Roosevelt as president

• Keynesian Economics

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to save the American economy and America itself during the Great Depression.

• The Dawes Plan

• Collective Bargaining

• The New Deal

• Treaty of Locarno

The post-WWI German democratic republic was called...

• The German Confederation

• The Bundestag

• The Third Reich

• The Weimar Republic

What economic system says that the government should spend money in times of crisis to stimulate the economy even if they have to borrow money to do it?

• Keynesian Economics

• The Dawes Plan

• Collective Bargaining

• Social Security

French workers received Collective Bargaining Rights. What are they?

• Set up the right of unions to negotiate with employers over workweek and wages

• Rights of people to set up a schedule for garbage collection.

• The rights of people to bargain/haggle with shop owners over prices

What killed over 22-100 million people worldwide between 1918-19

• WWI

• Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Turks

• The Spanish Flu

• Covid

In the United States, what was/is the Social Security System?

• A system of free money

• A government stimulus program

• U.S. federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.

• A job tenure and housing program.

Why countries like Germany turned to dictators but the U.S didn’t after the Great Depression?

• Because dictators are illegal under the United States Constitution and countries like Germany and Italy had a tradition of Kaisers and emperors.

• Because we elected Pres. Franklin Roosevelt whose New Deal based on Keynesian economics saved the country.

• Because the FBI brutally suppressed the Nazis and Communists that tried to take over the USA, killing their leaders and hanging them in the streets to make an example out of them.