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WorksheetsGreat Depression
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Social Security, welfare, taxes, CCC were programs to increase government intervention in the US economy in the -
Great Depression Deal
New Deal
New Economic Policy
Keynesian Deal
Nickname for US economy post-WWI, 1920s
Roaring 20s
Boomtime 20s
Boom to Bust 20s
Great Depression
Henry Ford's contribution to the US economic boom?
Powerloom
Lightbulb
Keynesian Economics
Assembly Line
Credit, reparations, loans, WWI production led to
overproduction
underproduction
invisible hands
Communism
Crazy way to invest in the stock market causing inflation
guilds
margin buying
run on banks
credit cards
The failure of secure banking systems was one of cause of the Great Depression.
True
False
New economic strategy that allowed some government participation in the US economy to provide public works jobs. This is a demand-side system.
Keynesian Economics
Laissez-Faire Economics
Supply and Demand Economics
Capitalism
Economist who challenged traditional US laissez-faire, supply-side, capitalistic economics
Voltaire
John Locke
Adam Smith
John Keynes
The Autobahn, dams, roads, bridges, military buildups, Hoover Dam, ejtc. were private, entrepreneurial projects created to provide jobs
True
False
Both Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in the US and Adolf Hitler in Germany adopted Keynesian Economics to improve their state economies
True
False
The US pulled itself out of the Great Depression while using Keynesian Economics while Germany did not.
True
False
When prices became too high after WWI, buying stopped and prices plummeted...investors lost millions on this day
Black Thursday in 1929
Black Tuesday in 1929
White Army Tuesday in 1929
Bank-Runs in 1929
One reason the US depression became a global depression is that US banks were unable to make loans to the Ottoman Empire, Germany, Italy, etc.
True
False
