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AQA GCSE History: Paper 1 Option AD — America, 1920-1973: opportunity and inequality

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What this course covers

  • Part one — American people and the ‘Boom’

    • 1.1 – The ‘Boom’
    • 1.2 – Social and cultural developments
    • 1.3 – Divided society

  • Part two — Bust – Americans' experiences of the Depression and New Deal

    • 2.1 – American society during the Depression
    • 2.2 – The effectiveness of the New Deal on different groups in society
    • 2.3 – The impact of the Second World War

  • Part three — Post-war America

    • 3.1 – Post-war American society and economy
    • 3.2 – Racial tension and developments in the Civil Rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
    • 3.3 – America and the ‘Great Society’

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