2.4: The Great Depression


2.4: The Great Depression

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
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2.4: The Great Depression

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

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people in this lesson
Herbert Hoover
president
1929 -1933
Franklin D Roosevelt
president
1933 - 1945

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Important dates in this lesson:

1924: Dawes Plan

1929: Black Thursday, start of Great depression

1933: Roosevelt starts New Deal



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What you will learn in 
this lesson
  • What caused the Great Depression in the USA
  • Which two methods were implemented to recover from the Great Depression 
  • What the New Deal was
  • How the economic situation in the U.S. affected the economical and political situation in Germany

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00:50
Mention 4 inventions that became available to Americans in the 1920s

Slide 17 - Open question

01:39
How were Americans who could not afford these luxury items persuaded to buy them anyway?

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02:15
"buying on margin" meant that you could even buy stocks on credit
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
C
don't click C

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03:00
What were the perks and dangers of speculating
on the stock market?

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03:16
A. What happened when the stock market fell?
B. And what happened to the value of stocks because of this?

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04:00
A. When banks closed what did many Americans want to do quickly?
B. hat was the result of this for banks?

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people can not buy things
stores do not order from factories
factories do not get orders
people lose their jobs
stores go out of business

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Herbert Hoover
Republican (1929 - 1933)

Solution:
government should not interfere in the economy.



Dealing with the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democrat (1933 - 1945)

Solution:
government must interfere in the economy: the NEW DEAL


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The causality of Hitler's popularity and the German economy
Economic situation in Germany
1923: hyper-inflation in Germany
Germans' 
faith in the Weimar government
Hitler's popularity
1924 - 1929. Loans from the Dawes Plan
1929 - 1933. Great Depression
Drag the thumbs to their correct place. One thumb remains: either E or J.

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What can you conclude about the relation between the economy and extremist parties?

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