Cambridge IGCSE History: Depth study D — The United States, 1919–41

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What this course covers

• Topic 1 — How far did the US economy boom in the 1920s?

  • 1.1 – Government policies; mass production in industries for cars and other consumer goods
  • 1.2 – Older industries; the development of credit and hire purchase; the decline of agriculture
  • 1.3 – Weaknesses in the economy by the late 1920s

• Topic 2 — How far did US society change in the 1920s?

  • 2.1 – Society in the 1920s: the ‘Roaring Twenties’; film and other media
  • 2.2 – Society in the 1920s: Prohibition and gangsterism
  • 2.3 – Society in the 1920s: restrictions on immigration, the ‘Red Scare’, religious intolerance
  • 2.4 – Society in the 1920s: discrimination against Black Americans; the Ku Klux Klan
  • 2.5 – Society in the 1920s: the changing roles of women

• Topic 3 — What were the causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash?

  • 3.1 – The Wall Street Crash and its financial, economic and social effects
  • 3.2 – The reaction of President Hoover to the Crash
  • 3.3 – The presidential election of 1932; Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s programmes

• Topic 4 — How successful was the New Deal?

  • 4.1 – Roosevelt’s inauguration and the ‘Hundred Days’
  • 4.2 – The New Deal legislation and the ‘alphabet agencies’: their work and their changes
  • 4.3 – Opposition to the New Deal: the Republicans; the rich; business interests
  • 4.4 – Opposition to the New Deal: the Supreme Court; radical critics like Huey Long
  • 4.5 – Strengths and weaknesses of the New Deal in dealing with unemployment and the Depression

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