Name: OCR GCSE History Explaining the Modern World: Modern World History Period and Depth Studies
Price: 41.99 USD
ISBN: 9781471860201

Hodder Education

Ben Walsh

OCR GCSE History Explaining the Modern World: Modern World History Period and Depth Studies

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Exam board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018

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This single core text contains the International Relations period study and three non-British depth studies:

> Germany 1925-1955

> The USA 1919-1948

> The USA 1945-1974

Language

English

ISBN

9781471860201

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Prologue: The historian’s mind-set

Features of this book

Part 1: Period study: International relations: the changing international order 1918–2001

Explaining the modern world

1 The interwar years and the origins of the Second World War

1.1 Hope for the future? The Treaty of Versailles and nationalism and internationalism in the 1920s

1.2 ‘The hinge years’: The impact of the Depression on international relations 1929–34

1.3 ‘The dark valley’: The failure of the League of Nations, Appeasement and the drift to war

1.4 The big sell-out? Historical controversy 1: Changing interpretations of Appeasement

2 The Cold War

2.1 A new world order: Causes of the Cold War 1945–50

2.2 ‘Three minutes to midnight’: Cold War crises and confrontations 1961–90

2.3 The blame game: Historical controversy 2: Changing interpretations of the origins of the Cold War

3 The world after the Cold War

3.1 End of an era: The end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism c1980–91

3.2 New dangers: The post-Cold War world

Assessment focus

Part 2: Non-British depth studies: The people and the state

4 Germany 1925–55: Democracy to dictatorship to division

4.1 Democracy to dictatorship: The rise and consolidation of the Nazi regime 1925–34

4.2 A national community? Nazi Germany and its people 1933-39

4.3 Destruction to democracy: The Second World War and its legacy in Germany 1939–55

Assessment focus

5 The USA 1919–48: Boom and bust, prejudice and progress

5.1 The ‘Roaring Twenties’: The age of irresponsibility?

5.2 The 1930s: Depression and New Deal

5.3 The USA 1941–48: A land united?

Assessment focus

6 The USA 1945–75: Land of liberty?

6.1 The Red Scare: Post-war challenges in the USA 1945–54

6.2 Righting wrongs: African Americans and the struggle for civil rights in the USA 1945–75

6.3 The times they are a-changing? Government and dissent c1964–75

Assessment focus

Glossary

Acknowledgements