1. Read through my marking of your books and tests carefully.
Fill in the marking sheet at the back of your book (probably!)
Remember that you need to summarise WWW and EBI
Include any comments from your exam in your feedback.
Act on any stars that you have not yet responded to (check back
in your book)
Get the title date and aim down and try the starter!
Impact of the Wall Street Crash
Aim: To explain the impact of the
Crash and to analyse the greatest
impact.
Odd one out:
$70 million
11,860,000
21
1920
1929
1933

2. Key Results
• Watch the following video
clip
• How many key impacts of
the Crash can you spot?
• Just how bad was it?
• How do you think people
viewed the current
president Hoover?
• Why?
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=iVkxLzuqu1c&feat
ure=youtu.be

3. Quick Quiz
1. Who was the President during the Wall Street Crash
(bonus point if you can tell me which political party he
was from!)
2. How many banks shut in 1929 alone?
3. What was the President’s policy?
4. How much was the car being sold for?
5. How high did unemployment get (as a percentage of the
population)?
6. What were nicknamed Hoovervilles?
7. What did Hoover do to the WWI veterans?
8. Who benefited from Hoover’s policy?

4. President Report
Mr Gowney-Hedges
This is the jet I went in… it would obviously have
to be stealth, or they would have seen me…
• I’ve been to Washington
again for you….
• Check out the provided
documentation.
• Create a mind map/quick
notes on/of the key
impacts of the Wall Street
Crash
• How did President Hoover
handle this crisis?

5. Hoover’s biggest mistake was allowing the banks to collapse? To what extent do
you agree with this statement?
10 marks
1 mark: General statements about the topic
Explain why the banks collapsing
was a bad thing and then choose
another factor (eg treatment of
WWI veterans) for 7-9 marks…
2-3 marks: Identification (description) of the main problems faced by President
Hoover.
4-6 marks: Explanation of the importance of allowing the banks to collapse
OR
Explanation of the importance of another factor.
7-9 marks: Explanation of the importance of allowing the banks to collapse
OR
Explanation of the importance of another factor.
10 marks: Direct comparison (analysis) of the relative importance of the different
reasons leading to a justified judgement.