Unit Six – What caused the Wall Street Crash / Why did FDR win the presidential election of 1932 ?

Tick Box scheme of work

 

Knowledge Test

 

Sample Questions

 

Useful Weblinks

BBC Bitesize information

Please click  here to go the Modern world section of the bitesize website. This contains overview content, a short video and a simple multiple choice test in the 1930s section – the Wall Street Crash and Depression. This is helpful in securing a grade C.

Detailed top up notes from the History Learning site

The History Learning  is excellent at producing detailed notes to secure your understanding or giving you more evidence to develop your arguments when you write. The appropriate link is listed below.

The Wall Street Crash

BBC audio slideshow

BBC audio slideshow The road to the Hooverville – excellent in explaining how the Wall Street Crash led to the Great Depression.

Youtube clips

 

The first of the two twenty minute videos that we used oin school on the USA. The last five minutes here is good at showing how the economy was overheating by 1929.

The second of the videos that we used. The start is excellent at showing how the Wall Street Crash led to the Great Depression.

The start of a PBS documentary on the Wall Street Crash – a bit more demanding.

 

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