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	The three factors that contributed to the severity and duration of the Great Depression included the financial crisis caused by the war and the peace settlement; the crisis in the production and distribution of goods in the world market; and   overproduction of grain. the collapse of the Kreditanstalt bank. Germany's runaway inflation. the failure of U.S. and European governments to offer economic leadership or act responsibly.

	In the years immediately after World War I, the United States insisted upon repayment of war loans made to the British and French.    True  False

	Political groups in France such as the Action Francaise and the Croix de Feu were opposed to military dictatorship.    True  False

	Over French objections, U.S. president Hoover halted, and eventually helped cancel, reparations payments.    True  False

	In 1936, economist proposed that governments could spend their way out of depression, but during the Great Depression economic policy called for spending cuts.

	Ramsey MacDonald formed a coalition ministry in Great Britain, called the National Government, composed of Labour, , and Liberal ministers.

	Britain's National Government   paved the way for the success of the British Union of Fascists. made little headway in leading Britain out of the Depression. restored industrial production to the pre-Depression level. had effectively conquered unemployment by 1936.

	In France, the 1936 election made the Socialists the largest single party for the first time in French history. Leon assumed the premiership on June 5, 1936.

	The most remarkable political event caused by the uncertainty and turmoil of the Great Depression was the coming to power of the National Socialists, or , in Germany.

	By 1930, the Weimar Republic had become a presidential dictatorship because   the army supported President von Hindenburg. Chancellor Bruning used Article 48 to dictate terms to von Hindenburg. the divided Reichstag could not override emergency decrees. all of these answers

	In the 1932 parliamentary elections, the Nazi party gained a clear majority.    True  False

	On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became the of Germany.

	The burning of the Reichstag in 1934   was blamed on the military. put the Nazi party on the defensive. resulted in greater authority for Hindenburg. was used by Hitler as evidence of a Communist threat.

	The police character of the Nazi regime was all-pervasive, but the people who most consistently experienced the terror of the police state were the German .

	The incident known as Kristallnacht allowed Hitler to invoke Article 48 of the Constitution and seize total power in Germany.    True  False

	French industrial production did not return to the level of 1929 until 1939.    True  False

	In the 1920s, Mussolini embarked on massive public works projects.    True  False

	Mussolini's economic program halted subsidies to industries.    True  False

	The economic policy known as is a planned economy linked to the private ownership of capital and to government arbitration of labor disputes.

	Italy invaded in 1935, causing the League of Nations to impose sanctions and encourage a boycott of Italian goods.

	In 1929, Stalin ordered party agents into the countryside to confiscate any hoarded wheat and to carry out a program of of agriculture.

	As a result of Stalin's agricultural policies   Soviet agriculture was largely collectivized. the country was faced with a continuing difficulty in producing sufficient grain. millions of peasants were killed. all of these answers

	Apprehensions regarding loss of control in the countryside, in addition to Stalin's own penchant for paranoia, resulted in the Great .

	A few thousand people were executed and imprisoned as a result of Stalin's purges.    True  False

	Newcomers to the party knew little about old Russia or the ideals of the original Bolsheviks. They had not been loyal to Lenin, Trotsky, or any other Soviet leader except himself.

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