Eduqas GCSE History: Component 2 Option 2A — The Development of the USA, 1929-2000

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Economic downturn and recovery

  • 1.1 – The impact of the Wall St. Crash
  • 1.2 – Republican attempts to deal with the crisis
  • 1.3 – Life during the Depression
  • 1.4 – Roosevelt and the New Deal

• Topic 2 — The economic impact of the Second World War and post-war developments

  • 2.1 – Industrial output and post-war affluence
  • 2.2 – Consumerism and suburbanization; ‘poverty amidst plenty’

• Topic 3 — The issue of Civil Rights 1941 - 1970

  • 3.1 – The contribution of black Americans to the war effort
  • 3.2 – The issue of education – Brown vs Topeka, Little Rock High
  • 3.3 – Montgomery Bus Boycott; the roles of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
  • 3.4 – Civil Rights legislation

• Topic 4 — Political change 1960-2000

  • 4.1 – The domestic policies of Kennedy
  • 4.2 – Nixon and Watergate
  • 4.3 – The Reagan Years
  • 4.4 – Changes under Bush Senior and Clinton

• Topic 5 — Social change 1950-2000

  • 5.1 – Changes in music, entertainment, media and literature
  • 5.2 – Changes in youth culture and student protest
  • 5.3 – The changing role of women

• Topic 6 — Cold War rivalry

  • 6.1 – The Truman Doctrine and containment of Communism
  • 6.2 – Berlin Crisis 1948-49
  • 6.3 – Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 6.4 – US involvement in Vietnam

• Topic 7 — The search for world peace since 1970

  • 7.1 – Détente and attempts to limit arms
  • 7.2 – Changing relations with China and changing US relations with the USSR
  • 7.3 – The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War
  • 7.4 – US involvement in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf War

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