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GCSE Modern World History for Edexcel: The USA 1929-1980
John Wright, Steven Waugh

Paperback
RRP: £12.99
ISBN: 9780340889039
ISBN-10: 0340889039

Published: 30/06/2005
Extent: 144 pages
Illustrations: 100 photos and diagrams

Series: GCSE Modern World History for Edexcel

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Summary:
Endorsed by Edexcel, Modern World History for Edexcel is designed to meet the needs of the Edexcel Modern World History specification. Each title in the series covers a popular combination of an outline and depth study - allowing for depth and skills progression throughout the course.Written by senior examiners, the series has been developed to enable students to achieve the highest possible grades through:

- outlining key lines of enquiry

- full coverage of the content requirements of the specification

- model answers, exam-style questions and exam tips to aid exam preparation

- dedicated support with assessment - with differing approaches to the outline and depth study appropriate to their different needs

- a variety of activities to motivate all students.



The USA 1929–1980 combines all the in-depth knowledge and exam advice needed for the Divided Union? The USA 1941–1980 outline study with a skills-centered, source-based approach for the Depression and New Deal: The USA 1929–41 depth study. This combination is designed to help students access the higher grades while giving a coherent, stimulating pathway throughout the course.

  • A coherent pathway through the Edexcel course to enable students to access the higher grades.
  • Exam advice, interrogation of model answers and lines of enquiry give students all the help they need to do well in exams.
  • Written by senior examiners as a result of feedback received from teachers and students - resulting in a book that teachers want and students need.
  • Approved and endorsed by Edexcel.

  • Endorsed by Edexcel.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Depth Study
Depression and the New Deal: the USA, 1929–41
The causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash
The Roaring Twenties
Consumerism
The share boom
Winners and losers in the boom
Long term and short term reasons of the Crash
Effects of the Crash – immediate and long-term
The impact of the Depression, 1929–33
Government policy under Hoover - aims and policies
Achievements and limitations
The Bonus Marchers
Effects of Depression on people’s lives throughout the USA
Attempts at recovery: the New Deal
Reasons for Roosevelt’s presidential victory
Aims of the New Deal
The first Hundred Days
New Deal policies in connection with agriculture, industry, employment and welfare
Opposition to the New Deal
Republicans
The Supreme Court
Businessmen
Father Coughlin, Dr Francis Townsend and Huey Long
The successes and failures of the New Deal
The extent of recovery by 1941
Assessment of the New Deal
Introduction to Outline Study
The Divided Union? The USA, 1941–80
The impact of the Second World War on the US economy and society
The war and the US economy
Treatment of Japanese living in the USA
Civil rights and the war
The changing role of women
McCarthyism and the ‘red scare’
Long term reasons for the ‘red scare’
Short-term reasons, 1949-51
Why McCarthy became involved
The ‘witch hunt’ under McCarthy
Why McCarthy was discredited
Results of McCarthyism
Civil Rights in the USA, 1941–80
Developments during and immediately after the Second World War
Brown v Topeka
Little Rock High School
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Role of M.L. King and his campaigns
Legislative changes in the 1960s
Freedom Riders and sit-ins
Black Power Movement
Urban unrest
Assessment of the changes
The ‘New Frontier’ and the ‘Great Society’
The New Frontier
Key reforms under Kennedy
Achievements and limitations
The Great Society
Key reforms under Johnson
Achievements and limitations
Protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s
General reasons for protest
The emergence of women’s movement
Key features of the movement
Assessment
The emergence of the student movement
Key features
Assessment
The Watergate scandal and its impact
Key events of the scandal
Its impact on presidency and US society

About the Author(s):
John Wright is an experienced author of GCSE textbooks and a senior examiner from a major awarding body Steve Waugh is an experienced author of GCSE textbooks and senior examiner from a major awarding body.

Readership:
GCSE students

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