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GCSE/IB History: The Wall St. Crash


 
 
 
 

Interactive Lesson for GCSE/IB History

1. Interactive Simulation
Can you survive the Wall Street Crash?
Play the stock market and see if you make your fortune!
2. Decision Making Game
Wall Street Crash

Interactive Worksheet Unit: The Wall St. Crash and The Depression

1. Introduction: Economic problems in the 1920s
2. Economic Principles - Stocks, Shares, Speculators
3. Why did a Crash happen in 1929? Could it have been prevented?
4. How did the Crash lead to a Depression? What were the political consequences?
5. Sourcework exercise - The Wall St. Crash
6. Fact? Mistake? Opinion? - The Wall St. Crash research exercise

Interactive Quizzes for GCSE/IB History

1. Fling the Teacher Challenge
The Wall St. Crash and the Depression
2. "Hot Potatoes" Self-Marking Quizzes
Wall Street Crash

History in the News for GCSE/IB History: The Wall St. Crash

1. Why has Germany taken so long to pay off its WWI debt? Germany is finally paying off World War I reparations, with the last 70 million euro (£60m) payment drawing the debt to a close.
2. Briefing: Computer traders blamed for Wall Street crash  
3. Germany still owes £50m in reparations for the First World War  
4. Glorious 39's scorn for appeasement is unjustified #historyteacher (via activehistory.co.uk / classtools.net)  
5. World War 2: Poland was conspiring with Nazis to destroy Soviet Union, Russia claims  
6. Vladimir Putin condemns appeasement of Hitler on 70th anniversary of WW2 outbreak  
7. EyeWitness Reports: Watching the start of World War II  
8. Stalin's bid for a new world order  
9. BBC Viewpoint: The Nazi-Soviet Pact  
10. Treaty of Versailles: 90 years old this weekend  
11. Stock market optimists need to read a history of the Great Depression  
12. 103 Year Old reflects on 1929 > 2008  
13. Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out  
14. Depression offers lessons for financial crisis  
15. Hitler's desk set on which Munich pact was signed in 1938 put up for sale in online auction  
16. Ideas and Trends - Appeasement’s Taint Is All in Hindsight - NYTimes.com  
17. Germany end World War One reparations after 92 years with £59m final payment Germany will finally clear its First World War debt by repaying nearly £60million this weekend.The £22billion reparations were set by the Allied victors – mostly Britain, France and America – as compensation and punishment for the 1914-18 war.
18. FTSE falls for 4th day on Greek contagion fears | Reuters FTSE falls for 4th day on Greek contagion fears
19. 'Great depression' gaffe lifted from Prime Minister's website  
20. History judges Neville Chamberlain unfairly, says his granddaughter  
21. Poland angry at Soviet war role  
22. Putin blames Britain for Russia's invasion of Poland on the 70th anniversary of WWII  
23. Modern views on the Nazi-Soviet pact  
24. Neville Chamberlain should be praised, not buried  
25. Russia declassifies secret documents on Nazi-Soviet pact  
26. Amid Russian push to recast history, Russian historian blames Poland for starting WWII  
27. CNN Online Video - Great Depression vs. Now - Which was Worse?  
28. Britain on the brink of an economic depression, say experts - Telegraph  
29. Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'  
30. 70th Anniversary of the Munich Agreement  
31. The Parallel with 1929 We Ignore at Our Peril  
32. Terror on Wall Street, 1920  
33. Rethinking Churchill and the Allied warmongers World War II, we know on good authority, was unnecessary, the authority being none other than Winston Churchill. By unnecessary Churchill meant that if the Allies' appeasement of Hitler hadn't taken place earlier, the war wouldn't have to have been to fou

 

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