Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.7: The Great Depression in the Americas (c.1920–1939) Questions
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Which populist critic argued that the New Deal did not go far enough and campaigned under the slogan 'Share Our Wealth'?
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Which 1935 law guaranteed American workers the right to unionise and bargain collectively?
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Which reform did Brazilian women achieve in 1932, allowing them to vote for the first time in the 1933 Constituent Assembly election?
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Which piece of legislation, passed in 1922, raised US import duties and provoked retaliatory tariffs from other countries?
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What proportion of Brazil's export earnings came from coffee by 1929, making the economy especially vulnerable to the Wall Street Crash?
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Which event on 29 October 1929 saw around 16 million shares dumped as the market lost billions of dollars in value in a single day?
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Choose the correct statement about Lázaro Cárdenas's reforms in Mexico.
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Choose the correct description of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), set up by Hoover in 1932.
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Choose the correct description of R. B. Bennett's actions as Canadian prime minister.
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Which agency, created under the New Deal, was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935 as unconstitutional overreach?
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Who was declared the winner of the contested 1930 presidential election, an outcome most historians regard as manipulated?
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Choose the New Deal measure that is correctly paired with its main purpose.
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Choose the correct fact about the effects of the New Deal in the United States.
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What pretext did Vargas use in 1937 to cancel the planned 1938 election and impose the authoritarian Estado Novo constitution?
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Which group launched a failed left-wing uprising against Vargas in 1935, which was then crushed and used to justify mass repression?
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Evaluate the claim that agricultural and environmental problems were more significant in causing hardship in the United States than the Wall Street Crash itself.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 was the main cause of the Great Depression in the United States?
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Discuss the view that Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression made the crisis worse rather than better.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Great Depression permanently realigned American party politics in favour of the Democratic Party?
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Evaluate the claim that failures of government regulation were the most important cause of the Great Depression in the United States.
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