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A-LevelAQA

AQA A-level History: Component 2 Option 2Q — The American Dream: reality and illusion, 1945–1980

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What this course covers

  • Part one — Prosperity, inequality and Superpower status, 1945–1963

    • 1.1 – Truman and Post-war America, 1945–1952
    • 1.2 – Eisenhower: tranquility and crisis, 1952–1960
    • 1.3 – John F Kennedy and the ‘New Frontier’, 1960–1963

  • Part two — Challenges to the American Dream, 1963–1980

    • 2.1 – The Johnson Presidency, 1963–1968
    • 2.2 – Republican reaction: the Nixon Presidency, 1968–1974
    • 2.3 – The USA after Nixon, 1974–1980

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