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iGCSE Revision

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.

1920s USA

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• 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

 
  • Economic benefits. Isolationism. Attitudes to Versailles settlement and the League of Nations. Protectionist policies.


• Attitudes to immigration. Policies to restrict immigration. The ‘Red Scare’. The Sacco and Vanzetti Case.

• 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.

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Hitler's Germany

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 The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early  problems

• The German Revolution of 1918.
  • The strengths and weaknesses of the new Constitution.
  • Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles.
  • The Spartacist uprising and
the Kapp Putsch.

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Examination Technique

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