Oxford AQA History: A Level and AS Component 1: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975
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English
ISBN
9780198363934
Contents
Introduction to features
AQA History specification overview
Introduction to the Oxford AQA History series
Timeline
Introduction to this book
PART ONE: AS AND A LEVEL
FROM CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR, 1865–1920
SECTION 1
The era of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1890
1 The weaknesses of federal government
The legacy of Lincoln
The weaknesses of the federal government
The troubled presidency of Andrew Johnson
Ulysses Grant and Radical Reconstruction
The failure of Radical Reconstruction
Summary
2 The Gilded Age
The end of Reconstruction and the ‘era of weak presidents’
Political corruption
Summary
3 American society
Social divisions
Regional divisions
The position of African-Americans
Summary
4 Economic growth and development
Developments in agriculture
Urbanisation, industrialisation and the rise of corporations
Summary
5 The United States and the world
The limits of foreign engagement
The continuation of isolationism and the Monroe Doctrine
Territorial consolidation
Tensions over Canada
Summary
6 The end of the frontier: the United States in 1890
The dominance of laissez-faire
The end of the frontier and its impact
Summary
SECTION 2
Populism, Progressivism and imperialism, 1890–1920
7 Politics: Republican dominance, 1890–1912
Political tensions and divisions: the rise of Republican dominance
The Republican presidency: McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft
Summary
8 The Democratic Party, Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom, 1896–1917
Political tensions and divisions: the Democratic Party
The Wilson presidency: Progressivism and the New Freedom
Continuing tensions and divisions
Summary
9 Economic change and development
The rise of US dominance as an economic and industrial power
The impact of economic change
Summary
10 American society
Immigration and urbanisation, 1890–1917
The consequences of immigration and urbanisation for American society and culture
The position of African-Americans before the First World War
Summary
11 The United States and the world
American imperialism
Engagement in international affairs
The United States and the First World War
Summary
12 The United States by 1920: the impact of the First World War
The world economic power
Social and ethnic divisions
Warren G. Harding and the 1920 election: political reaction and renewed isolationism
Summary
PART TWO: A LEVEL
CRISES AND THE RISE TO WORLD POWER, 1920–1975
SECTION 3
Crisis of identity, 1920–1945
13 Republican Conservatism, 1920–1932
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Summary
14 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deals
The victory of Franklin Roosevelt in the election of 1932
Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal policies
The conflict of ideas over the role of the federal government
Summary
15 Boom, bust and recovery: economic change and development
The 1920s Boom
Structural weaknesses in the economy
The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, 1929–1933
The impact of the New Deals and the Second World War on economic recovery
Summary
16 Social and cultural developments, 1920–1941
The Jazz Age
New social values
Prohibition and its failure
The social impact of the Great Depression
Social divisions and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
The position of African-Americans
Summary
17 The United States and the world
The extent of American isolationism
Franklin Roosevelt and the end of isolationism, 1937–1941
Summary
18 The United States by 1945: the impact of the Second World War
War, politics, and the presidency
War and the economy
The impact of the war on American society
A new world order: the United States in 1945
Summary
SECTION 4
The Superpower, 1945–1975
19 Domestic politics 1945–1960: post-war reconstruction
The Truman presidency
The Eisenhower presidency
Summary
20 Domestic politics 1961–1974: Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
The Kennedy presidency and the New Frontier
The Johnson presidency and the Great Society
The crisis of the Democratic Party
The Nixon presidency
Summary
21 The Age of Affluence: the American economy
Age of abundance: the post-war economic boom
The Affluent Society: economic growth in the 1960s
Economic change: the end of the post-war boom and the ‘Great Depression’ of the 1970s
Summary
22 A divided society: ideological, social, regional and ethnic divisions
Social divisions, the Age of Conformity and the rise of the consumer society
New cultural developments and the mass media
Ideological divisions: the impact of McCarthyism on culture and society
Regional and ethnic divisions
Civil rights and American society
Social divisions: women, youth and a time of protest
Summary
23 The United States and the world
The Cold War: the origins of containment, 1945–1949
The Long Peace: the Cold War and Europe, 1949–1961
The Cold War and Asia, 1949–1961
Confrontation and détente: the United States and the USSR, 1961–1972
The United States and the Vietnam War, 1961–1973
The new balance of power: the United States, China and the USSR, 1972–1975
Summary
24 The United States by 1975
America as a world power
The limits of social cohesion: developments in society and culture
Troubled giant: America and the world in 1975
Healing the wounds: the end of the American Civil War
Summary
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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