What was one of the first things president hoover did to combat the effects of the great depression?

he did nothing, thinking the economic crisis would mend itself with time.
he refused to pass the smoot-hawley tariff, which would have lowered rates.
he sought passage of the controversial national industrial recovery act.
he asked businesses to decrease production and increase employment.

He did nothing, thinking the economic crisis would mend itself with time.

Hoover was a laissez-faire Republican who believed the government should not interfere with the economy.

Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to do nothing initially. He believed it was a normal part of the boom-bust economic cycle. As the Depression moved on, Hoover used a method of volunteerism. Volunteerism asked those with money to give to others and to invest their money back into the banks and job creation.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

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