Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.4.A
The Standard
- MWH.C.6
- Evaluate the global transformation created by the World Wars.
- MWH.C.6.4
- Analyze the economic, social, and political conditions that resulted in World War II.
Describe the various causes and consequences of the global economic collapse and evaluate how democratic and authoritarian governments responded to the Great Depression, including the growth of social welfare legislation and mixed economies.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.6.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how debt, bank failures, and falling trade helped turn an economic downturn into a global depression. They compare democratic welfare laws and mixed economies with authoritarian state control, and weigh the effects on workers and freedoms.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can link bank failures and falling trade to job losses across countries. They explain how Social Security added a public safety net while private businesses continued to operate. They contrast that response with Nazi Germany's state-directed rearmament and political repression.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often treat the 1929 stock crash as the only cause. They may think a mixed economy means the government owns every business. Some see Nazi public works as help for workers without recognizing the loss of rights.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, name two causes and one global effect of the Depression. Compare the U.S. Social Security Act with Nazi Germany's Four Year Plan, and identify one feature of a mixed economy.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled bank runs, tariffs, falling trade, and job losses; have them sort causes from effects and draw arrows between cards.
Read short excerpts from the 1935 Social Security Act and Germany's 1936 Four Year Plan; write how each government tried to direct the economy.
Play policy match: pair Social Security, bank regulation, and rearmament cards with government goals, then have partners defend their matches.
Display a blank unemployment benefits application and ask how the 1935 Social Security Act helps explain government support during job loss.
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Related Standards
- OKH.C.7.1
Identify local and national economic conditions which contributed to the Great Depression and were characterized by mass unemployment and human suffering.
- USH.C.4.2
Analyze the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties and the collapse of the United States of America’s economy, leading to the Great Depression.
- USH.C.4.2.B
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- OKH.C.7.3
Examine the effects of the Great Depression on Oklahomans and evaluate the effectiveness of governmental response.
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