Description
Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series.
For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best.
The series:
- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way.
- Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams
- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers
Table of Contents
- : Chapter 1 - A Changing Nation
- : Introduction
- : Historical Background
- : The Political System
- : The USA 1890-1920
- : The Growth of Big Business and its Impact on the USA
- : New Immigration
- : The Populist Movement and Political Protest
- : Growth of Empire
- : Progressivism and the Progressive Presidents
- : US Entry into the First World War
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 2 - Problems and Tensions in the USA 1917-28
- : A Changing Society
- : The Presidency of Warren Harding
- : Tensions in Society
- : Religion and Morality
- : The Old Versus the New
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 3 - Prosperity?
- : The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
- : The Boom Years
- : Reasons for Prosperity
- : Problems in the Economy
- : The Strength of the Economy
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 4 - The Collapse of the Wall Street Stock Market, October 1929
- : The Wall Street Crash
- : Causes of the Wall Street Crash
- : Effects of the Wall Street Crash
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 5 - President Hoover and the Great Depression
- : Introduction
- : Herbert Hoover: His Background and Beliefs
- : The USA During the Great Depression
- : Why the Depression Lasted So Long
- : Federal Government Policies
- : The 1932 Presidential Election
- : President Hoover: an Epitaph
- : The Key Debate
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 6 - Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-4
- : Beginnings of Roosevelt's Presidency
- : The First 100 Days and the First New Deal
- : Alternatives to the New Deal
- : The Character of the First New Deal
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 7 - Roosevelt and the Later New Deals 1935-9
- : Introduction
- : The Second New Deal
- : The 1936 Presidential Election
- : Problems in the Second Term
- : The Later New Deal
- : The End of the New Deal
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 8 - American Foreign Policy 1920-41
- : Introduction
- : US Foreign Policy in the 1920s
- : Roosevelt's Foreign Policies 1933-9
- : US Response to the European War
- : Road to Pearl Harbour
- : US Foreign Policy: An Overview
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 9 - The New Deal in Retrospect
- : Introduction
- : Relief, Recovery and Reform
- : Race and Gender
- : Impact of the Second World War on the USA
- : Political Legacy of the New Deal
- : The Key Debate
- : Conclusion
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 10 - The USA and the Fear of Communism
- : Introduction
- : Postwar Prosperity
- : Foreign Policy 1945-54
- : Domestic Responses to Communism
- : Conclusion
- : Study Guide
- : Glossary
- : Index
