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18 Cards in this Set
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One of the most imporant causes of the Great Depression was the fact that during the 1920s
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there was a fundamental maldistribution of purchasing power.
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In much of the 1920s, European nations were able to make their war-diet payments to the United States, and Germany and Austria were able to continue repartion payments by
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getting new loans from the United States
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The stock Market crash of 1929
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triggered a chain of events that led to the economic crisis
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When it was first organized how did the Farmer's Holiday Association seek to gain higher prices for farm products?
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was largely a result of farming practices on the Great Plains
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The Dust Bowl
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was largely a result of farming practices on the Great Plains
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In the early 1930s the term "okies" referred to
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dispossessed farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl
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In the 1920s the great majority of Hispanics in California and the American Southwest originally migrated from
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Mexico
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One effect of the Great Depression on women was to
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strengthen the belief that a woman's place was in the home.
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Popular culture during the Depression era? as manifested by radio, movies and literature was generally charactized by
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upbeat and romantic messages
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Margaret Mitchells Gone with the wind was or was not an implicit protest against social injustices in contemporay American History
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was not
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Movie attendance during the Depression
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fell initially but then rose as the Depression worsened
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The Popular Front
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was a broad coalition of "antifascist" groups on the political left.
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The Abraham Lincoln brigade was most closely associated with
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the Spanish Civil War
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The tactics pursued by the American Communist Party between 1935 and 1939 were aimed at developing a broad alliance against
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fascism
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For the eight years immediately before becoming president, Herbert Hoover has been the
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secretary of commerce
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The purpose of the Agricultural Marketing Act, proposed by Hoover even before the Grant Crash of 1929 to
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keep farm prices up
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Hoovers first efforts to control the Depression focused on
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voluntary cooperation by business leaders in restoring the public confidence in the economy.
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The Reconstruction Finance Coporation was largely ineffective in promoting recovery from the Depression because
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it was underfunded and overcautious in the use of the funds it did have
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