GCSEHistoryAQAThe Period Study (Paper 1: Section A)America, 1920–1973: Opportunity & Inequality

America, 1920–1973: Opportunity & Inequality (AQA GCSE History)

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Exam Skills: America 1920-1973

  1. The Comparing Interpretations Questions: America 1920-1973 (Q1 & Q2)
  2. The 8 Mark "Which Interpretation is More Convincing" Question: America 1920-1973 (Q3)
  3. The 4 Mark "Describe" Question: America 1920-1973 (Q4)
  4. The 8 Mark "In What Ways" Question: America 1920-1973 (Q5)
  5. The 12 Marker "Bullet Point" Question: America 1920-1973 (Q6)

Boom-The Roaring Twenties

  1. Reasons For the Economic Boom
  2. What were the "Roaring Twenties"?
  3. Changes to Women During the 1920s
  4. Why was Prohibition Introduced & Repealed?
  5. Discrimination in US Society
  6. Did All Americans Benefit From the Boom?

Bust–The Great Depression

  1. Speculation & the Wall Street Crash
  2. What Impact Did the Crash Have on the Economy?
  3. What were the Social Consequences of the Crash?
  4. Why Did Roosevelt Win the Election of 1932?

Recovery-The New Deal

  1. The New Deal, 1933
  2. Changes to the New Deal After 1933
  3. Opposition to the New Deal
  4. Was the New Deal a Failure?
  5. America's Experience of the Second World War
  6. Popular Culture in the 1930s

Post-War America

  1. American Society After the Second World War
  2. McCarthyism
  3. Civil Rights Organisations

The Civil Rights Movement

  1. Progress in Education-Brown vs Topeka, 1954
  2. Progress in Education-The Little Rock Nine, 1957
  3. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
  4. The Greensboro Sit-In, 1960
  5. Martin Luther King & Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
  6. Martin Luther King & the March on Washington, 1963
  7. Malcolm X
  8. The Black Power Movement
  9. Civil Rights Legislation
  10. The Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968

America & the ‘Great Society'

  1. President John F. Kennedy
  2. President Lyndon B.Johnson
  3. The Development of the Feminist Movement
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