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The Great Inflation: A Historical Overview and Lessons Learned WorksheetThe Great Inflation: A Historical Overview and Lessons Learned Worksheet
Publisher
Federal Reserve Bank
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9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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29
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Year
2012
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The Great Inflation: A Historical Overview and Lessons Learned

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Your young economists will explore the roots of fears about high inflation by learning the effects of rising prices during the world wars and in particular the Great Inflation of the 1970s.

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CCSS: Designed

Additional Tags

hyperinflation, Volcker disinflation, social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Administer reading electronically as a homework assignment in order to take advantage of hyperlinked vocabulary terms

Pros

  • Includes extension lesson involving a discussion on how governments should pay for debt

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.4

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