My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: The USA, c1920–55: boom, bust and recovery
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9781471876479
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Introduction
1: Boom and crash, 1920–29
The economic boom of the 1920s
Government encouragement for business and laissez-faire economics
Limits to the boom
Causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
Changes in society: immigration and the Red Scare
The Ku Klux Klan
The changing role of women
Prohibition and organised crime
Cultural change in the 1920s
Popular entertainment
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2: Depression and New Deal, 1929–38
The spread of the Depression, 1929–32
The human impact of the Depression
The presidency of Herbert Hoover, 1928–33
Hoover’s response to the Depression, 1929–33
Roosevelt and the First New Deal, 1933–35
Reforming the financial system
Opposition to the First New Deal
The Second New Deal, 1935–38
Opposition to the Second New Deal
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3: Impact of the New Deal and the Second World War on the USA to 1945
The New Deal and the economy
The impact of the New Deal on the national infrastructure
The impact of the New Deal on women: the economy in 1940
The impact of the New Deal on black Americans
The impact of the war on black Americans
The impact of the New Deal and war on Native Americans
The Impact of the New Deal and war on Hispanic Americans
Social and cultural changes
Wartime domestic propaganda
The war and the economy, 1941–45
Impact of war on the USA
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4: The transformation of the USA, 1945–55
Economic transformation
The new consumer society
The end of post-war euphoria
Anti-Communism and the Cold War
Cultural change: Hollywood and the Cold War
Cultural change: The growing power of television and the origins of teenage culture
The stereotyping of women and ethnic minorities
The changing status of minorities
The extent of change by 1956
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Glossary
Key figures
Timeline
Mark scheme
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