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  • World History: Imperialism and War
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    • Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century
    • The Impact of Imperialism
    • Imperialism, Modernization and Resistance
    • The Causes of World War One
    • World War One: Global War
    • The Impact of Global War
    • The Interwar Years
    • The Rise of Totalitarian States: Russia and Italy
    • Totalitarianism and Militarism: Germany and Japan

The Interwar Years

1. Overview
2. The Interwar years, 1918-1938
3. Europe between the wars
4. The social and political impact of WWI
5. The European economy in the interwar period
6. Economic Depression
7. The Great Depression
8. The Great Depression in Europe
9. The Great Depression in America
10. Germany and Europe in the interwar period
11. Review

Economic Depression

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Reading

A poor family living in a shanty in Oklahoma, 1936

Read the below, a brief overview of the Great Depression. It provides a short introduction to the topic, which we will continue to explore in further activities in this learning pathway.

‘Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s: Overview’, The Western Heritage, ch. 28 (excerpt).

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