Post War Europe
This type of structure (railways, bridges, factories) had to be rebuilt after WWI.
What is infrastructure
This pandemic killed millions after WWI.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Germany had to make these payments after WWI.
What are reparations?
This decade was marked by economic growth and consumer spending.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
This event marked the start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
One of two regions destroyed, slowing Europe’s ability to produce goods.
What is industrial or agricultural regions?
This was the main effect of population loss on the workforce.
What is reduced workforce?
This government struggled to manage Germany’s economy.
What is the Weimar Republic?
Banks did this risky action that hurt the economy later.
What is make risky or bad loans?
This happened to banks after the crash.
What is they failed or went bankrupt?
Name a country that had to build economies from scratch after WWI.
What is Poland or Yugoslavia?
Fewer workers led to this economic problem.
What is reduced production or slow recovery?
Germany did this to try to pay debts, causing inflation.
What is printing money?
This economic problem occurred when too many goods were produced.
What is overproduction?
People lost this when banks collapsed.
What is their savings/money?
This is why destroyed infrastructure made economic recovery difficult.
What is because goods and people were difficult to move?
Two major causes of population decline after WWI.
What are war deaths and disease?
This treaty required Germany to pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
People often bought stocks using this risky method.
What is on credit or loans?
This global crisis followed the stock market crash.
What is the Great Depression?
Explain one reason why rebuilding infrastructure is essential to economic recovery.
What is because it allows for trade, manufacturing, transportation, or job creation?
Explain how population loss affected Europe’s long-term recovery.
What is fewer workers led to slow production and economic growth?
Explain how printing money led to hyperinflation.
What is too much money reduced its value?
Explain why the U.S. economy appeared strong but was actually weak.
What is it relied on credit, overproduction, and/or risky loans?
Explain how the stock market crash led to widespread unemployment. (3 steps)
What is businesses failed>workers lost jobs>economy shrank?