The USA, 1918–1939
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Give three reasons for the US boom of the 1920s.
Wealth and creditor status gained in the war; new technology and mass production; a large home market.
2
Why did the 1929 stock-market crash spread worldwide?
Other economies were tied to US credit and trade.
3
Compare Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s approaches to the crisis.
Hoover tried to limit state intervention; Roosevelt moved to active state programmes.
4
Describe US foreign policy of the 1930s in three sentences.
Isolationism, neutrality laws, relations with the USSR in 1933; non-involvement in European conflicts.
5
State one achievement and one limit of the New Deal.
Achievement: social guarantees and jobs; limit: full recovery came only with the wartime economy.