Ch 17 WS 1

World History

 

  1. What factor automatically made the League of Nations weak?

 

 

  1. What did France plan to do to get reparations from Germany when Germany said they couldn’t pay anymore?

 

 

  1. When there wasn’t enough money in Germany to pay their workers, what did the German gov’t do? What did this cause?

 

 

  1. What was the Dawes Plan? Did this help Europe?

 

 

  1. Approximately how many people died from Spanish Influenza during 1918-’19?

 

 

  1. Why was Europe so pumped about the Treaty of Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand pact?

 

 

  1. What did the League of Nations propose that would make war less likely in Europe? How did that go over?

 

 

  1. What is a depression?

 

 

  1. Why were farm product prices in the 1920s falling like a rock?

 

 

  1. Why did the US stock market crash cause problems in Europe?

 

 

  1. In 1932, what percentage of England’s labor force was unemployed? Germany?

 

 

  1. What were three effects the Great Depression had on the world?

 

 

  1. What years did women get the right to vote in France, Italy and Switzerland?

 

 

  1. What kind of gov’t did Germany have during the 1920s? What was the major problem it faced? What did it pave the way for?

 

 

  1. What did economist John Maynard Keynes say gov’ts should do during really bad economic times?