Flashcard: Global Historical Developments — 24 carte

Great Depression — start year?

1929, after the stock market crash

Wall Street crash — trigger?

1929 stock market collapse

Stock margin — risk?

Increases risk of financial collapse

Gold standard — role?

Fixed currency to gold reserves

Hawley-Smoot tariff — effect?

Raised tariffs, worsened global trade

Depression duration?

1929 to WWII start

Unemployment US 1932?

About 20% (~10 million)

New Deal — leader?

FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Devaluation — percentage?

40% to boost exports

Gold abandonment — purpose?

Expand money supply, fight depression

Popular Front — country?

France, 1936

Popular Front law — date?

June 11, 1936

Workweek — law?

40 hours/week

Austerity shift — reason?

Budget deficit, social reform limits

Maritime globalization — key?

Containerization and EEZ rules

Container port — function?

Standardized cargo handling

Malacca dilemma —?

China’s reliance on Malacca Strait

RECAAP — purpose?

Piracy and armed robbery cooperation

Dunkirk evacuation — year?

1940

German invasion — target?

Denmark and Norway, 1940

Sea strategy — importance?

Control of routes for resources

Totalitarianism — WWII link?

Expansion ideologies, aggression, League impact

French purge — phase 1?

Spontaneous violence, savage purge

French purge — phase 2?

Court trials, De Gaulle’s leadership