How did the Great Depression affect the world?

Overcoming the Great Depression
The peace settlement at the end of World War I left many nations unhappy and border disputes simmering throughout Europe. The League of Nations proved a weak institution. Democracy was widespread, and women in many European countries gained the right to vote. However, economic problems plagued France, Great Britain, and the German Weimar Republic. When Germany declared that it could not continue to pay reparations, France occupied one German region as a source of reparations. An American plan reduced the burden of reparations and led to a period of prosperity and American investment in Europe. The prosperity ended with the economic collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression. European governments tried different approaches to ending the depression. Many middle-class Germans began to identify with anti-democratic political parties. The new American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pursued a policy of active government intervention in the economy that came to be known as the New Deal.
Kay Terms and Names
Coalition government, Weimer Republic, Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal.
Homework

• Lee el capitulo 2 de la unidad 2 (paginas 110-114)
• Prepara fichas para los términos de la pagina 111
• Contesta las 4 preguntas de la sección azul en la pagina 111.