A | B |
mandate | a territory governed by a member of the League of Nations |
Balfour Declaration | issued by Great Britain |
on margin | demand for immediate repayment of a loan |
stockbroker | people who sell shares in businesses |
margin call | paying for the cost of stocks and stockbrokers |
stock market crash | when stock prices fell at record rates (October 29, 1929) |
recession | time of economic slowdown |
depression | a period of very low economic activity, combined with very high unemployment |
Great Depression | a time of low economic despair in the U.S. during the 1930s |
tariff | a tax on imports |