My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980
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9781510417854
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Introduction
Part 1: Prosperity, inequality and superpower status, 1945–63
1 Truman and post-war America, 1945–53
The United States in 1945 and the legacies of the world war
Regional, ethnic and social divisions
The USA as a Superpower
The Cold War and containment in Europe and Asia
Truman and post-war reconstruction
The rise of McCarthyism
African Americans in North and South
Exam focus
2 Eisenhower: Tranquillity and crisis, 1953–61
Eisenhower’s personality and the policies of ‘dynamic conservatism’
Richard Nixon as Vice President, the Republican Party and the end of McCarthyism
The growth of the American economy in the 1950s and the impact of the ‘consumer society’
The USA and the Cold War
Reactions to the rise of Communism in Asia and responses to crises in the Middle East
African Americans in the North and the South
The responses of the state and federal authorities
Exam focus
3 John F. Kennedy and the ‘New Frontier’, 1961–63
Election victory, ‘New Frontier’ policies and personalities
Challenges to American power: Cuba
Challenges to American power: Berlin and Vietnam
African Americans in North and South
Kennedy’s policies in response to the pressures for change
The United States by 1963, part 1
The United States by 1963, part 2
Exam focus
Part 2: Challenges to the American Dream, 1963–80 (A-level only)
4 The Johnson presidency, 1963–69
Johnson as President
Maintaining American world power
African Americans in North and South
The impact of change, including urban riots
Social divisions and protest movements, part 1
Social divisions and protest movements, part 2
Exam focus
5 Republican reaction: The Nixon presidency, 1969–74
The presidential election of 1969
The domestic policies of the Nixon administration
Reactions to protest movements, social change, economic change and the end of the post-war boom
The limits of American world power
The influence of Kissinger on US policies towards the USSR, Latin America and China
The Watergate affair and its aftermath
Exam focus
6 The USA after Nixon, 1974–80
Ford and Carter as Presidents
Political corruption
The position of the USA as a world power
African Americans in North and South
Change and continuity in the ‘New South’
The USA by 1980
Exam focus
Glossary
Key figures
Timeline
Notes
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