Question

True or false? As a result of the depression, Western governments started taking a more active role in directing the economy and providing social safety nets for their citizens.
Question 3 options:
True
False

Answer 1

This is true. Due to the depression the western government started taking measures that would help the citizens.

The great depression

This was a period in the 1920s that had the United States in a state of economic down turn. Lots of people lost their jobs at this time and people were unemployed.

To take care of the citizens the governments had to start several social programs that would alleviate the hardship.

Read more on the great depression here:

brainly.com/question/441267

Answer 2

For K12 Students taking the same quiz:

Q1: Why did the Great Depression in the United States affect the economies of Europe?

A: European markets were closely connected to American markets

Q2: Which is NOT an impact of the Great Depression on European colonies in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

A: They were able to invest in their own region

Q3: True or false? As a result of the depression, Western governments started taking a more active role in directing the economy and providing social safety nets for their citizens.

A: True

Q4: True or false? The depression allowed for the rise of dictatorial leaders who promised they would heal all of their nations' woes.

A: True

Q5: What is attributed with pulling nations like the US, Japan and Germany out of the Great Depression?

A: war production

All of these answers are proven correct by me, who took the quiz through K12.

You may read the article we were assigned here:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-7-the-great-convergence-and-divergence-1880-ce-to-the-future/72-interwar-betaa/a/read-global-great-depression-beta