<p>Name ______Date ______Period _____</p><p>THE SEARCH FOR STABILITY READING GUIDE </p><p>Directions: Use pages 464-469 in your textbook to fully answer the questions below. Some of the questions require careful thought as you read.</p><p>1. What were some of the problems created by the Treaty of Versailles?</p><p>2. Why was the League of Nations a weak organization? (there are multiple reasons)</p><p>3. Do you think the U.S. Senate made a good decision when it decided not to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations? Explain.</p><p>4. In general, what are reparations?</p><p>5. How much money were the Germans expected to pay the French in reparations?</p><p>6. Why did the French seize the Ruhr Valley?</p><p>7. What made the Ruhr Valley a valuable region? How did the French plan to use this area to compensate for the German failure to pay reparations?</p><p>8. Think back to important figures we have covered this year. Who would have supported the German workers' methods of resisting the French?</p><p>9. What problem was exacerbated (made worse) by the German workers' refusal to work?</p><p>10. How did the Germans attempt to combat their high rate of inflation?</p><p>11. What evidence of the inflation was visible in Germany? 12. Who was Charles Dawes (the architect of the Dawes Plan)? What were the three major components of the Dawes Plan?</p><p>13. What was the pledge of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?</p><p>14. What was to be done if the Kellogg-Briand Pact was violated?</p><p>15. What do you think should have been done if the Kellogg-Briand Pact was violated? Explain.</p><p>16. What is a depression?</p><p>17. Why did the Great Depression occur?</p><p>18. How did governments attempt to respond to the Great Depression? How effective were these responses?</p><p>19. The book says that two forms of government became popular during the Great Depression. Identify each form of government and explain why you think it might have become popular.</p><p>20. Summarize the four major problems faced by the Weimar Republic after WWI.</p><p>21. What political parties made up the Popular Front government? Ultimately, were they able to solve France's problems through the "French New Deal"?</p><p>22. According to John Maynard Keynes, who should pay to put workers back on the job, even if it meant going into debt (deficit spending)?</p><p>23. What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to solve the economic crisis in the U.S.? Did it work?</p>