Industrial Revolution Reading Guide

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The Search for Stability Reading Guide

Directions: Use pages 464-469 in your textbook to fully answer the questions below. Some of the questions require careful thought as you read.

1. What were some of the problems created by the Treaty of Versailles?

2. Why was the League of Nations a weak organization? (there are multiple reasons)

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.

4. In general, what are reparations?

5. How much money were the Germans expected to pay the French in reparations?

6. Why did the French seize the Ruhr Valley?

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?

8. Think back to important figures we have covered this year. Who would have supported the German workers' methods of resisting the French?

9. What problem was exacerbated (made worse) by the German workers' refusal to work?

10. How did the Germans attempt to combat their high rate of inflation?

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?

13. What was the pledge of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

14. What was to be done if the Kellogg-Briand Pact was violated?

15. What do you think should have been done if the Kellogg-Briand Pact was violated? Explain.

16.What is a depression?

17. Why did the Great Depression occur?

18. How did governments attempt to respond to the Great Depression? How effective were these responses?

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.

20. Summarize the four major problems faced by the Weimar Republic after WWI.

21. What political parties made up the Popular Front government? Ultimately, were they able to solve France's problems through the "French New Deal"?

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)?

23. What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to solve the economic crisis in the U.S.? Did it work?