Civil rights in the USA - 1. The Red Scare and McCarthyism

Four lessons linked to Chapter 1 of Edexcel IGCSE History curriculum unit:

A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.

This chapter focuses on:

The Red Scare and McCarthyism.

There are lessons on:
1.1 The US political system
1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War
1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home
1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare

All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.

The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.

There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.

There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.

Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.

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