What effect did the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War have on the executive branch of the United States government? They made this branch successful at foreign policy. They made this branch subservient to the other two branches. They made this branch less respected by the American public. They made this branch the most powerful branch of government.

They made this branch the most powerful branch of government.

Explanation:

The Executive arm of government deals with enforcing the law and negotiating foreign agreements.

The President of the United States which included Franklin Roosevelt and Truman during the World War II and Cold Period were mostly involved in representing the best interest of the people by taking decisions. This sole decision making made the executive branch very powerful. Other branches of government such as the Legislative and Judiciary have very little or no function when it deals with foreign affairs.

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.