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Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Endorsed for Edexcel
Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading academics
- Build a strong understanding of the period studied with authoritative, well-researched content written in an accessible and engaging style
- Ensure continual improvement in students' essay writing, interpretation and source analysis skills, using practice questions and trusted guidance on successfully answering exam-style questions
- Encourage students to undertake rolling revision and self-assessment by referring to end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams across the years
- Help students monitor their progress and consolidate their knowledge through note-making activities and peer-support tasks
- Provide students with the opportunity to analyse and evaluate works of real history, with specially commissioned historians' essays and extracts from academic works on the historical interpretations
Contents
0: Introduction
Paper 1: Britain transformed, 1918-97
Theme 1: A changing political and economic environment, 1918-79
1a: A changing political landscape
1b: Responding to economic challenges
1c: Change and challenge in the workplace
Theme 2: Creating a welfare state, 1918-79
2a: Providing social welfare
2b: Public health
2c: Education and widening opportunities
Theme 3: Society in transition, 1918-79
3a: Class and social values
3b: The changing role and status of women
3c: Race and immigration
Theme 4: The changing quality of life
4a: Changing living standards
4b: The changing role and status of women
4c: Race and immigration
Historical interpretations: What impact did Thatcher's governments have on Britain 1979-97?
Paper 2: The USA, 1920-55: boom, bust and recovery
Key topic 1: Boom and crash, 1920-38
Section 1: The economic boom of the 1920s
Section 2: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
Section 3: Changes in society
Section 4: Cultural changes in the 1920s
Key topic 2: Depression and the New Deal 1929-38
Section 1: The spread of the Depression 1929-32
Section 2: Hoover's response to the Depression 1929-32
Section 3: Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-35
Section 4: The Second New Deal 1935-38
Key topic 3: Impact of the New Deal and the Second World War on the USA to 1945
Section 1: The New Deal and the economy
Section 2: The impact of the New Deal and the war on ethnic minorities
Section 3: Social and cultural changes
Section 4: The war and the economy 1941-45
Key topic 4: The transformation of the USA, 1945-54
Section 1: Economic transformation
Section 2: The end of post-war euphoria
Section 3: Cultural change
Section 4: The changing status of minorities
Paper 2: The USA, 1955-92: conformity and challenge
Key topic 1: Affluence and conformity, 1955-63
Section 1: Urbanisation and affluence
Section 2: Cultural conformity and challenge
Section 3: The civil rights movement
Section 4: Kennedy's New Frontier
Key topic 2: Protest and reaction, 1963-72
Section 1: Civil rights
Section 2: Johnson's Great Society
Section 3: Protest and personal freedom
Section 4: Reactions to the counter-culture, 1968-72
Key topic 3: Social and political change, 1973-80
Section 1: The crisis of political leadership
Section 2: The impact of economic change on society
Section 3: Changing popular culture
Section 4: The extent of progress in individual and civil rights
Key topic 4: Republican dominance and its opponents 1981-92
Section 1: New directions in economic policy
Section 2: The Religious Right and its critics
Section 3: Cultural challenge
Section 4: Social change
