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internet was down for most of the class

Socialism- major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than individual people and companies, some socialist countries are India, Tanzania, and sri lanka.

absolute monarchy-  a king or queen

Had no internet, talk about presentations 

Great Depression In the World

• Britain had poverty and unemployment
• Impacted by the great depression but not as bad as the US was
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act- prevented many Germany  industries from selling their goods
• The Great Depression in Germany led up t

Nathan presented on the world

1. Britain
   1.                                                           i.    Unemployment doubled to 20%
   2.                                                         ii.    They were struggling from WWI
   3.                                

Impact the Great Depression had on the world

• Britain was struggling because of WWI, when the US economy crashed trade stopped and that hurt the British economy even more. Britain was not as bad off as the United States, Unemployment was high. Taxes we

Great depression and the world

• Britain economy was hurting 
• public spending was cut
• pound (British Money) was devalued by 25%
• great Britain was defiantly better off then us

• Germany was effected especially by the treaty of Versailles
• Smoot-Hawley tariff act

Britain- already struggling after WWI, value of exports was halved, poverty and unemployment blighted large areas

German- Treaty of Versailles, international trade war triggered by the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Hitler coming to power 

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Today we presented. 

The great Depression and the world

-Britain's economy was impacted but not as bad off as America. World trade went down, unemployment went up

-Germany, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, force american people to buy from America Business' Los

toady we went over some projects

The four questions you will be researching are as follows:

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

    buying on margin, too much borrowing from banks, over production, stock prices were grossly inflated, lac

Britain

- world trade declines

- unemployment went up

Germany

- especially hit hard by the Depression

- brought Adolf Hitler to power

Japan

- no trading

- invaded China

Most other countries struggled as much as the United States

Shelby County

- Lost Farms

- Co-s

It began on June 17, 1944. The day Iceland got their independence. First Iceland was under Norway’s and Denmark’s rule, then under Denmark’s after they separated.  There were many independence movements, but they all failed. It was during WWII while

I was absent

I was absent. 

Andorra

My European country that I chose to research is Andorra. Andorra is a very small country in size, but important in many reasons to the whole world. It can often be forgotten while squished in between the large countries of Spain and France, bu

we listen to Obamas State of the Union address

STOCK MARKET:

Buying on margin-not enough money to buy stocks, use some of won money then borrow rest from broker, if the price of stock fell lower than the loan amount there could be a "margin call", lead to overpriced stocks; After crash-it took 22

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression? Black Thursday and Black Tuesday, many people panicked trying to sell and exchange stocks. Most people money was in the stock market so they lost it and banks closed

Today we continued with Great Depression projects. I'm continuing my notes from yesterday. We took a quiz over half of the info lately, I noted where we took the test over. 

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depre

2 more people presented their powerpoints. Early out

WPA Buildings (Works Progress Administration)

Alden Bridge

Eagle Point Park, Clinton

The New Deal

Made by F.D.R. and was made to have 4 major goals

-Economic recovery

-Job creation

-Investment in public wo