CurriculumEconomic History
Economic History
The crises, turning points and eras that explain how today's economy got built.
- The Great Depression The economic collapse that reshaped how governments respond to a crisis. 📄 Read-aloud
- Bretton Woods The 1944 agreement that built the modern international monetary system - and what happened when it collapsed. 📄 Read-aloud
- The 2008 Financial Crisis How a housing market problem in one country triggered a global financial crisis. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economic History: Checkpoint 1 Covers the Great Depression, Bretton Woods, and the 2008 financial crisis. 5 questions
- The COVID Economy How the COVID-19 pandemic produced an economic shock unlike any prior recession, and what followed it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Hyperinflation What happens when inflation spirals out of control, and how it usually starts. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Industrial Revolution The transformation that created the modern economy, and the disruption it caused along the way. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economic History: Checkpoint 2 Covers the COVID economy, hyperinflation, and the Industrial Revolution. 5 questions
- The Rise of China How China moved from a largely agrarian economy to the world's second-largest in a few decades, and what drove it. 📄 Read-aloud