Edexcel GCSE History: Paper 3 Option 33 — The USA, 1954-75: conflict at home and abroad

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• Topic 1 — The development of the civil rights movement, 1954–60

  • 1.1 – The position of Black Americans in the early 1950s
  • 1.2 – Developments in education
  • 1.3 – The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact, 1955–60
  • 1.4 – Opposition to the civil rights movement

• Topic 2 — Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960–75

  • 2.1 – Developments, 1960–62
  • 2.2 – Peaceful protests and their impact, 1963–65
  • 2.3 – Malcolm X and Black Power, 1963–70
  • 2.4 – The civil rights movement, 1965–75

• Topic 3 — US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1954–75

  • 3.1 – Reasons for US involvement in the conflict in Vietnam, 1954–63
  • 3.2 – Escalation of the conflict under Johnson
  • 3.3 – The nature of the conflict in Vietnam, 1964–68
  • 3.4 – Changes under Nixon, 1969–73

• Topic 4 — Reactions to, and the end of, US involvement in Vietnam, 1964–75

  • 4.1 – Opposition to the war
  • 4.2 – Support for the war
  • 4.3 – The peace process and end of the war
  • 4.4 – Reasons for the failure of the USA in Vietnam

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