A trough is a low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle. The time evolution of many variables of economics exhibit a wave like behaviour with local maxima (peaks) followed by local minima (troughs). A business cycle may be defined as the period between two consecutive peaks.
The New Deal put food on people’s plates and gave them a roof over their heads.
The Progressive Movement helped people also, but it seemed to push the wealthy class further beyond the lower class.
The reforms caused excitement among other Eastern European nations. The policies of glasnost, or openness, and perestroika, or restructuring, were the catalyst for the changes. There is still much debate as to whether or not he hastened the end of the Cold War and fall of the USSR with these or if he saw them as inevitable and helped to quicken the end.
<span>They would be working on projects or monuments.</span>
