Why Did the Great Depression Result in So Much Political

question 51

Multiple Choice

Why did the Great Depression result in so much political change in Europe?

• A) Industrial and political leaders fled Europe for the United States, creating power vacuums.
• B) High unemployment rates pushed most governments to adopt Keynesian
• Approaches.
• C) The extreme suffering of poverty made people open to Communist systems.
• D) Economic crisis exacerbated an already acute sense of political and cultural instability.
• E) The League of Nations responded to unequal access to natural resources by once again shifting national borders.

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