The Great Depression of U.S Flashcards

European history

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The U.S. stock market crash led to a global economic depression because
American lenders called in their international debts, which undermined banks and industry abroad.
Although all European countries suffered during the Great Depression, the country listed below that experienced the least disruption to its productive capacity was
France.
Despite the depression and being far less developed economically than their Western
neighbors, some eastern European countries increased industrial capacity, particularly
Romania.
Which of the following does not accurately describe a source of social tension during the
Great Depression?
Many people fled the cities, overwhelming the ability of rural communities to support
their own population.
In the 1930s, although the views of politicians varied, one concern shared by all was that
Falling birthrates meant a serious weakening or imminent collapse of individual nations,
if not European society altogether.
In the Middle East, some important anticolonial and nationalist movements were successful,
including the founding of an independent Republic of Turkey, led by
Mustafa Kemal (or Atatürk).
Mohandas Gandhi fought against British colonial rule of India by
Practicing civil disobedience.
Mustafa Kemal dramatically changed Turkish society in the 1920s by
Modernizing Turkish society by adopting elements of Western economics and culture.
In 1929, Joseph Stalin intended to end the Soviet Union's backwardness with an ambitious
industrial expansion program called the
Five-Year Plan.
When Stalin called for the “liquidation of the kulaks,” he was referring to
Prosperous peasants and anyone who opposed his plans to end independent farming.
Stalin's use of terror tactics to assure fulfillment of the production quotas in the 1930s
Made lying, such as the falsification of production figures, and corruption permanent
features of the Soviet Communist system.
Purges and hard labor and mistreatment in the Gulags killed, annually, approximately
One million
In the 1930s, men such as Alfred Hugenberg exemplified the
Unprecedented power of the new media magnates over politics and public opinion.
Who said “The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small”?
Adolf Hitler
When new elections were held in March 1932, prior to Hitler's appointment as chancellor,
the Nazis
Increased their share of the vote, but again failed to win a majority of Reichstag seats.