Lesson 3: Interwar instability and the Great Depression
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Students will analyze how economic crises and political instability during the interwar period reshaped governments and societies.
How did economic instability affect political systems during the interwar period?
Why did the Great Depression become a global crisis?
How do economic crises influence political change?
Economic crisis
Global depression
Political instability
HIS.9-12.4 Analyze the causes and consequences of historical events on a global scale.
HIS.9-12.8 Analyze how economic systems shape historical development.
Students analyze graphs, charts, and informational texts to explain historical change.
Students examine the global impact of the Great Depression and evaluate how economic instability reshaped political systems. Primary DOK level: 3.
Connections to modern economic crises and government responses.
Students may assume the Great Depression affected all countries equally.
Data interpretation supports.
Visual graph analysis.
Short written explanation connecting economic crisis to political change.
Economic charts, political cartoons, historical accounts.