Description
Book SynopsisExam 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 not
Table of 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
