The Onset of the Great Depression

question 139

Multiple Choice

The onset of the Great Depression:

• A)was not a shock to anyone, since most economists predicted the roaring '20s were bound to end in disaster.
• B)caused a disagreement between the Hoover administration and conventional economists because Hoover wanted the government to intervene much more quickly than most others.
• C)came as a considerable shock to the conventional wisdom of economics at that time and opened the door for critiques of mainstream thought by economists like John Maynard Keynes.
• D)was in 1918 at the end of World War I.

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