The Treaty of Versailles meant peace at the times, as it ended the WWI. However, it also established very harsh conditions for Germany (high war reparations), which later led to Germany's poverty and the rize of Nazis to power : so it's blamed for instigating (causing, leading to) the WWII.
The Treaty of Versailles also brought a big land loss for Germany, Austria and Hungary.
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted gooded to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.
A literacy rate is a percentage of people who are able to write compared to the people who don't know how to.
