Revision guide and revision resources for AQA GCSE History: America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and Inequality: American people and the Boom. The resources are also suitable for Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History.
The topics considered are:
• The ‘Boom’: benefits, advertising and the consumer society; hire purchase; mass production, including Ford and the motor industry; inequalities of wealth; Republican government policies; stock market boom.
• Social and cultural developments: entertainment, including cinema and jazz; the position of women in society, including flappers.
• Divided society: organised crime, prohibition and their impact on society; the causes of racial tension, the experiences of immigrants and the impact of immigration; the Ku Klux Klan; the Red Scare and the significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
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2024 P8: +0.49
2023 P8: +0.25
2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33
2021 P8: +1.42
2020 P8: +0.47
2019 P8: +0.57
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