L5th Revision - for the Feb. exams
*The exam will be 90 minutes long.
*Timings for each question is in the 'examination technique' booklets. Remember that if you have extra time, you will need to work out your own timings.
*Section A - is about the early years of the Weimar Republic (3, 4, 8 and 10 mark question).
*Section B - is about USA (3, 7 and 15 mark question).
*Revision notes for both topics can be found in the workbooks.
*Timings for each question is in the 'examination technique' booklets. Remember that if you have extra time, you will need to work out your own timings.
*Section A - is about the early years of the Weimar Republic (3, 4, 8 and 10 mark question).
*Section B - is about USA (3, 7 and 15 mark question).
*Revision notes for both topics can be found in the workbooks.
1920s USA
• The impact of the First World War on the USA
• Immigration • Prohibition and gangsterism • Mass production and the stock market boom • The Roaring Twenties • The position of black Americans
• Reasons for the introduction of and failure of prohibition. Organised crime, including Al Capone. • Reasons for economic boom in the 1920s. Henry Ford and mass production. Hire purchase, consumerism and the popularity of the stock market. Problems in farming, including over-production and mechanisation. The decline of older industries. • The leisure industry, cinema, Jazz, dancing, sport, radio, advertising and motoring, morals and values and the ‘Monkey Trial’. The changing position of women, including the flappers. • The Jim Crow Laws, segregation and discrimination. The Ku Klux Klan. The influence of Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. |
Hitler's Germany
The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
• The German Revolution of 1918.
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Examination Technique
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