AQA AS history
Subtitle: USA 1790-1945
By: Neil Ashworth, John Spiller
Contributors: Spiller, John, author
Series: My revision notes; My revision notes
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781444199710; 9781444199703
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Study guides; History; Examinations; HISTORY; State & Local; General
Description: Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to know. My Revision Notes AQA AS History: USA 1890-1945 closely combines the content of this AQA AS unit with revision activities and advice on exam technique. In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for you to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam. - Makes revision of the content manageable by condensing topics into easy-to-revise chunks. - Encourages active revision by closely combining content with a variety of different activities. - Helps improv.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Book title; Contents; Introduction; Section 1: The USA, 1890-c1920; The US political system in 1890 and the role of the President; Presidential elections; Mass immigration and its impact on US society and politics; The rise of big business and its impact on the economy; Progressivism; US foreign policy, 1890-c1913; Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, 1913-1921; The introduction of Prohibition; Exam focus; Section 2: The USA, c1920-1929; Post-war attitudes and the Red Scare; The rise of the Ku Klux Klan; The reasons for the economic boom of the 1920s; The ending of mass immigration.; title: Crime and ProhibitionThe continuing problems in agriculture and parts of the economy; The return to normalcy in foreign policy; Exam focus; Section 3: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941; The reasons for the stock market crash and the Great Depression; The onset of the Great Depression; Impact of the Great Depression; Responses to the depression under President Hoover; Roosevelt and the New Deal; Successes and failures of the New Deal; Opposition to the policies of the New Deal from the left; Opposition to the policies of the New Deal from the right and the Supreme Court.; title: The reasons for the end of ProhibitionThe fight against organised crime; Exam focus; Section 4: The impact of the Second World War on the USA, 1941-1945; The debate concerning the end of isolationism; Roosevelt and the reasons for US entry into the Second World War; The impact of the Second World War on American society; The emergence of the USA as a world power by 1945; Exam focus; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Timeline; Answers.