Crash Course - Economic Malaise

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1) After WW2 name two countries where the US promoted economic growth. 
Japan and Germany. 
2) What year did the US have an export trade deficit? 
1971. 
3) Today what % of Americans work in manufacturing? 
9%. 
4) What term relates to the combination of unemployment and inflation? 
Stagflation. 
5) Why did nuclear power grow like it did in Europe? 
Carter biggest plan to solve the energy crisis was investment in nuclear power. And nuclear 
power did grow although never to the extent we saw in certain European countries, because of 
the accident of Three Mile Island in 1979.