Syllabus Usa 1919-1941
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Option I: USA 1919–1941
Principal focus: Students investigate the key features and issues of the history of USA 1919–1941. Key features and issues: • nature and impact of industrialisation • nature and impact of consumerism • the Great Depression • racism in American society • changes in society • influence of conservatism • American capitalism • government intervention • American foreign policy and extent of isolationism Students learn about: 1 Politics in the 1920s – Republican economic policies – long-term causes of the Great Depression – the Great Crash of 1929 2 The Great Depression and its impact – effects of the Depression on different groups in society: workers, women, farmers, Afro-Americans – attempts to halt the Depression: the Hoover Presidency, the FDR years – assessment of the New Deal 3 US society 1919–1941 – implications of growing urbanisation and industrialisation – growth and influence of consumerism including entertainment – social tensions: immigration restrictions, religious fundamentalism, Prohibition, crime, racial conflict, anti-communism and anti-unionism 4 US foreign policy – nature, aims and strategies of US foreign policy 1919–1941 – impact of domestic pressures on US foreign policy 1919–1941
Principal focus: Students investigate the key features and issues of the history of USA 1919–1941. Key features and issues: • nature and impact of industrialisation • nature and impact of consumerism • the Great Depression • racism in American society • changes in society • influence of conservatism • American capitalism • government intervention • American foreign policy and extent of isolationism Students learn about: 1 Politics in the 1920s – Republican economic policies – long-term causes of the Great Depression – the Great Crash of 1929 2 The Great Depression and its impact – effects of the Depression on different groups in society: workers, women, farmers, Afro-Americans – attempts to halt the Depression: the Hoover Presidency, the FDR years – assessment of the New Deal 3 US society 1919–1941 – implications of growing urbanisation and industrialisation – growth and influence of consumerism including entertainment – social tensions: immigration restrictions, religious fundamentalism, Prohibition, crime, racial conflict, anti-communism and anti-unionism 4 US foreign policy – nature, aims and strategies of US foreign policy 1919–1941 – impact of domestic pressures on US foreign policy 1919–1941
