Responses to the Great Depression had far-reaching consequences in many countries, including the development of 

The leader who won the Chinese civil war in 1949 and established Communism in China was

The hulls of German U-boats were thin enough to be easily pierced and sunk.  

In World War I, Germany and France became locked in a stalemate along hundreds of miles of trenches for years.

The stock market crash revealed structural flaws in the economy and in government policies but did NOT cause the Great Depression.  

The Soviet Union lost 30 million people during World War II and believed that they should dictate the postwar situation in Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conference (1945).  

In the U. S., the Red Scare involved a government-led hunt for communist subversives.  The senator who led the hunt and exploited the fears of Americans to gain influence was 

The Bolshevik Revolution (1917) led millions to join the Communist party in America.  

New Dealers were unified in their rejection of laissez-faire orthodoxy and were less moralistic than the Progressive reformers that came before them.  

Complaints that fueled nationalist sentiments and spawned riots in Soviet bloc nations in Eastern Europe included