Chapter 30 Reading Guide
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What were the long term and immediate causes of the Great Depression?
Why was the Depression felt worldwide?
What was Western Europe’s response to the stock market crash and the depression?
What was Roosevelt’s response? What was the New Deal?
What are Fascism and Nazism and how did they become popular after the war and Great
Depression?
What was Hitler’s popularity based on?
Where else did Fascism spread and why?
What changes occurred in Latin America as a result of the Great Depression?
What happened in Brazil and Argentina?
How does Japan react to the Great Depression? What new policies did it enact? How was their
response different from others’?
Who was Joseph Stalin? What were his goals for communist Russia?
What is collectivization? How did Stalin change the economy of Russia?
What is totalitarian rule and how did Stalin epitomize this?
How did the 1930s change the political and economic realities of the major “players” in the
global network?
What major trends do we see in the 1930s as a result of the Depression?