AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality revision guide – About Oxford Revise
With our guide, you’ll revise the full specification for the AQA GCSE History: America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality exam.
For this this period study, you’ll cover a range of topics from
Oxford Revise takes you through what to revise and how to do it. With our approach you’ll expand your understanding and learn the key concepts for your History exam. Also, our retrieval questions help you check your learning. As well as this, the exam practice questions and model answers give you plenty of exam practice.
Revise effectively for your Edexcel GCSE History: America 1920-1973 exam
This guide covers the period study America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality, using clear, easy-to-understand language.
- Key terms boxes highlight the important words and language that you need to understand and help you to use them confidently.
- Revision tips give you quick ways to understand the core concepts and practice remembering them.
AQA GCSE History: America 1920-1973 exam practice
Each chapter has lots of exam-style questions for you to practice. These revision guides are designed to build your confidence, consolidate your knowledge and stretch your understanding across all topics for the exam. As well as this, there are helpful tips throughout:
- Exam tips show you how to interpret questions, what you need to do in your answers, and give you advice on how to get as many marks as possible.
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Contents list
1. The ‘Boom’
2. Social and cultural developments in the 1920s
3. Divided society
4. American society during the Depression
5. The effectiveness of the New Deal
6. The impact of the Second World War
7. Post-war American society and economy
8. Racial tension and Civil Rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
9. America and the ‘Great Society’
Answers
AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality answers
The Oxford Revise approach
Oxford Revise uses a clear three-step method to get you ready for your exams.
1. Knowledge – Learn the facts through an easy-to-follow ‘Knowledge Organiser’ in each chapter.
2. Retrieval – Check you’ve retained the exam knowledge, through quick-fire recall questions and answers.
3. Practice – Put your knowledge into practice by completing plenty of exam-style questions.
In addition, there are lots of hints and tips from revision and subject experts on how to plan your revision and helpful advice on techniques to build exam confidence.
Our expert authors
Series editor: Aaron Wilkes
Author: James Ball
Aaron Wilkes
Our Series Editor and Author, Aaron Wilkes, brings over 25 years of experience working in schools, where he has served as a teacher, department head, and faculty leader. On top of that, Aaron leads the PGCE Secondary History course at the University of Warwick. He’s also widely published as a school textbook author, mainly with Oxford University Press.
In addition, Aaron is the co-creator and co-owner of the online History journal practicalhistories.com, which offers useful resources for history educators. He also works with the BBC as an Educational Consultant for their Bitesize and Teach platforms.
James Ball
James has worked as a history teacher, head of history, and head of humanities in schools across the West Midlands for nearly 20 years. During that time, he’s also been busy authoring textbooks alongside his teaching career — including co-authoring OUP’s Edexcel Medicine in Britain student book. Over the years, his passion for writing has grown, and now he lives in Copenhagen where he writes full-time. These days, he spends his time authoring textbooks, developing classroom resources, and writing educational articles and blogs for a wide range of publishers, EdTech companies, and charities.
Customer Reviews
A great looking study guide that really helps you take the information in!
This history study guide is a brilliant one to get if you're studying this time period. Every chapter follows the same pattern, there's a double page or so about the subject, giving you clear and easy to understand information, followed by a second page which helps to test/review what you've learned so far and a third page with some exam style questions.
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Very Thorough
Very pleased with this GCSE History study book. The layout makes it easy to engage with. Where there are questions, there are also answers to ensure you're learning correctly.
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