How Did the Great Depression Help Lead to the Outbreak

question 71

Multiple Choice

How did the Great Depression help lead to the outbreak of World War II?

• A)It caused France to invade Germany after the Germans failed to pay back their war reparations.
• B)It led to the rise of extreme right-wing,nationalistic governments in several key European nations.
• C)It caused many countries to stop funding the League of Nations,crippling the organization tasked with keeping the peace.
• D)It prevented nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom from investing in more troops.

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Definitions:

Laspeyres Price Index

A measure of price inflation or deflation for a specified set of goods and services, using the quantities of the base year as weights.

Ideal Cost-Of-Living Index

Cost of attaining a given level of utility at current prices relative to the cost of attaining the same utility at base-year prices.

Paasche Index

An economic measure that calculates the change in the cost of purchasing a specified basket of goods and services in a given year compared to a base year, using current-period weighting.

Nominal Income

The amount of money earned in current dollars, not adjusted for inflation.