The Great Depression: A Global Crisis Reaches India
The Making of a Global World
Explore how the prosperity of the 1920s collapsed into the worst economic crisis in history, and trace its devastating impact from American cities to Indian villages.
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📖 Your Story
You are a young journalist in 1932, travelling across continents to report on the Great Depression. Starting from the booming factories of 1920s America, you witness the dramatic collapse of 1929, then follow the economic tremors to Europe, and finally arrive in rural India to document how a global crisis affected Indian peasants and farmers.
What You'll Learn
- Explain the factors that led to the Great Depression beginning in 1929
- Analyze how agricultural overproduction and falling prices created a crisis
- Understand the role of US loans in the global economy and the impact of their withdrawal
- Describe how the Depression affected India's peasants, farmers, and trade
How to Play
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The Roaring Twenties: A Fragile Prosperity
4 problems · 50 XP
The Great Depression Unfolds
3 problems · 45 XP
India's Depression: Tremors Across the Ocean
4 problems · 80 XP