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AQA AS-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
Topic overviewThe Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the CrusadesManzikert and the Call of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade: Motives and CampaignThe Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader StatesThe Knights Templar and the HospitallersThe Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin WestZengi and the Fall of EdessaThe Second Crusade
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
Topic overviewThe Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469Ferdinand, Isabella and the NobilityForeign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and IsabellaThe Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of GranadaThe Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas ExpansionThe Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516The Inheritance of Charles VImperial Ideology and Conciliar GovernmentCharles V's Wars, Absences and Religious PolicyThe Conquest of the Americas and the Price RevolutionCharles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Topic overviewHenry VII's Claim to the ThroneHenry VII's Councils and GovernmentHenry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyPretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIISociety and the Economy under Henry VIIReligion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIHenry VIII: Character and AimsWolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeThe Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesThe Ranks of Tudor SocietyThe Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyHumanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Topic overviewThe Political Nation, Divine Right and James ICourt, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629Disputes between Crown and ParliamentArminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal RuleThe Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to WarThe First Civil WarThe Second Civil War and the LevellersThe Army, Parliament and the Regicide
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
Topic overviewRussian Society and Government in 1682The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the StreltsyPeter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St PetersburgPeter I's Early Economic, Political and Military ReformsOpposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy RevoltThe Azov Campaigns and the Battle of NarvaThe Poll Tax and State MonopoliesThe Holy Synod, the Senate and Church ReformThe Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of RanksWesternisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign PolicyThe Service State under Peter the Great
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
Topic overviewThe British Political System in 1783Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesPitt's Financial and Trade ReformsEarly Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamEnclosure and Agricultural ChangeSocial Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawThe French Revolution and British RadicalismThe Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionThe Wars with France and the Home FrontLuddism and Britain by 1812Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooCanning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationTextiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsUrbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRadicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismThe Great Reform Act of 1832
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
Topic overviewParliament and the Franchise before 1867The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and DisraeliThe Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural DepressionClass and Region in Victorian BritainThe Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and DisraeliIreland, the Great Famine and the Land QuestionGladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its OpponentsConservative Dominance before 1905Socialism and the Birth of the Labour PartyNew Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament ActThe Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff ReformNew Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's SuffrageLiving Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
Topic overviewAutocracy and Serfdom in 1855The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's ReformsReform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander IIPobedonostsev and RussificationLiberals, Populists and the Tsarist PoliceEconomy and Society after EmancipationNicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental LawsThe Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's IndustrialisationWorkers, Peasants and the Grain TradeLiberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and MarxistsThe First World War and the February RevolutionLenin's Return and the October RevolutionLenin's Ideology, War Communism and KronstadtStalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
Topic overviewThe Suez Canal and the Occupation of EgyptThe Indian Mutiny and the Government of India ActThe Scramble for Africa and the Chartered CompaniesMissionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to EmpireThe Boers, the Zulu War and Southern AfricaExpansion in Africa and the Government of IndiaLord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in EgyptIndirect Rule and the Entente CordialeChamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil RhodesThe Justifications for Empire and National EfficiencyExhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular ImperialismThe Boer War and the Union of South Africa
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
Topic overviewJohnson, Grant and Radical ReconstructionThe Redeemers and the Gilded Age PresidentsThe Post-Reconstruction South and Jim CrowThe Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded AgeThe Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign PolicyThe Populist Movement and the People's PartyProgressivism and Roosevelt's Square DealWilson's New Freedom and America's Economic RiseImmigration, Urban Growth and SegregationAmerican Imperialism and the War of 1898Neutrality and Entry into the First World WarAmerican Society and Industrial Power by 1920
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
Topic overviewThe States of the German Empire in 1871The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and ReichstagBismarck's Domestic PoliciesWilhelm II and WeltpolitikGerman Industrial Power before 1914The Burgertum and the Prestige of the EliteWorkers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Topic overviewPapal Supremacy and the Church HierarchySalvation and the Seven SacramentsCorruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517The Holy Roman Empire and Its ElectorsThe Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 ThesesThe Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 TreatisesLuther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of WormsKarlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's ReturnZwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' RevoltThe German Peasants' WarThe Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and MarburgThe Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
Topic overviewThe English Church and Its Wealth in 1529Humanism and the Call for Church ReformHenry VIII's Great MatterThe Reformation Parliament and the Break with RomeReformist and Conservative Factions at CourtFaction, Diplomacy and the DissolutionThe Reasons for and Effects of the DissolutionThe Pilgrimage of GraceThe Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's BookReligion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
Topic overviewJames I's Legacy and Charles I's KingshipCharles I, Buckingham and the Petition of RightThe Personal Rule and Its MinistersLaud's Reforms and Protestant FearsThe Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in IrelandPuritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' WarThe Bishops' Wars and the Recall of ParliamentCharles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640John Pym and the Long ParliamentDeadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish RebellionThe Attempt on the Five MembersThe Militia Ordinance and the Drift to WarThe Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
Topic overviewRichelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaMazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesWestphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesThe Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipThe Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesColbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesThe Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauGloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyThe Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
Topic overviewMercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years WarFrom the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea PartyThe Intolerable Acts of 1774The First Continental CongressCommon Sense and the Organisation of ResistanceGeneral Gage and the Road to LexingtonThe Declaration of Independence
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
Topic overviewLouis XVI and French AbsolutismThe Three Estates and Seigneurial RightsTaxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien RegimeThe Philosophes and the EnlightenmentThe Financial Crisis of the Ancien RegimeCalonne and the Assembly of NotablesThe Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-GeneralThe Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-GeneralThe National Assembly and the Fall of the BastilleThe Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the MonarchyThe Founding of the RepublicThe Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist RevoltThe Levee en Masse and the Coming of the TerrorThe Fall of the Factions and the Great TerrorThermidor and the Dismantling of the TerrorVendemiaire and the Directory
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
Topic overviewFederalism and States' RightsThe Northern Economy by 1845Cotton, Plantations and the Southern EconomyThe Missouri Compromise and the Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery ArgumentsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Formation of the Republican PartyDred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's FerryThe Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
Topic overviewHow Britain and France Made Foreign PolicyThe Economic and Military Strength of the Great PowersThe Scramble for Africa and Great Power RivalryBalkan Nationalism and Austria-HungaryThe Naval Race, the Arms Race and War PlansThe Moroccan CrisesThe Entente Cordiale and the Triple EntenteThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireThe Bosnian Crisis of 1908The Balkan WarsSarajevo and the Austrian UltimatumMobilisation and the Schlieffen PlanThe July CrisisItaly, the USA and the Widening War
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
Topic overviewA Young Kingdom: North, South and the RisorgimentoThe Italian Monarchy and the Narrow FranchiseGiolitti and the Gentiloni PactIndustrial Growth, Socialism and Labour UnrestNationalism, Futurism and the Triple AllianceIntervention in 1915 and Italy's War AimsThe Isonzo Front and CaporettoThe Home Front and the Peace SettlementFiume and the Mutilated VictoryPost-War Crisis and Political InstabilityThe Biennio Rosso and the Fascist ResponseThe March on Rome and Mussolini's AppointmentWhy the Elites Accepted MussoliniFascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the DuceThe Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti CrisisBuilding the Dictatorship, 1925-1926Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Topic overviewThe Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New LiberalismThe Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian EconomyEdwardian Class, Poverty and the People's BudgetThe Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home RuleThe Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal SplitThe War Economy, DORA and Post-War IndustryWomen's War Work, the Vote and ConscriptionThe War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish IndependenceLiberal Decline, the First Labour Government and BaldwinThe Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General StrikeThe Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920sThe Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
Topic overviewTsarism and the Strain of War by 1917The February RevolutionThe Provisional Government and the April ThesesThe October RevolutionThe First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party RuleBrest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil WarTrotsky and the Building of the Red ArmyWhy the Reds Won the Civil WarBolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red TerrorTambov and KronstadtThe New Economic PolicyForeign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet DiplomacyLenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for PowerPermanent Revolution and Socialism in One CountryThe Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great TurnThe Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Topic overviewThe Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyThe Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesThe Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsThe Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsThe Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschThe Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsStresemann and the Dawes PlanWeimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreHindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsStresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoThe Wall Street Crash and the German BanksBruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughNazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealThe Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenThe Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeThe Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyGleichschaltung and the One-Party StateThe Night of the Long Knives
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
Topic overviewJapanese Encroachment and the GuomindangThe Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's IdeologyYan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United FrontThe Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945The Race for Territory and the Marshall MissionThe Nationalist Position in 1946The Civil War and the Nationalist CollapseChina in 1949 and the Founding of the RepublicThe Mass Campaigns and the Grip on PowerThe Soviet Alliance and the Korean WarThe Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year PlanThe Great Leap Forward and the People's CommunesRectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
Topic overviewAmerican Power and Politics in 1945Truman and the Fair DealContainment, NATO and the Korean WarTaft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismCivil Rights in the Truman YearsEisenhower and Modern RepublicanismThe Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomySuburbia, the Highways and the New LookHungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisEisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATOBrown, Montgomery and Little RockThe Election of 1960The New Frontier and the Berlin WallCivil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
Topic overviewYalta, Potsdam and the Wartime AllianceThe Sovietisation of Eastern EuropeThe Marshall Plan and American Aid to EuropeThe Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATOJapan, China and NSC-68Korea in 1950 and the UN ResponseMcCarthyism and the Isolation of ChinaNATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina WarKhrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and HungaryThe Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris SummitThe U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space RaceThe Berlin Crisis and the Berlin WallThe Division of Vietnam and the NLFCuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Topic overviewThe Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964The Long Boom and Stop-GoWomen, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill RiotsForeign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964Harold Wilson and the National PlanDevaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969In Place of Strife, Education and Northern IrelandThe Abolition of Hanging and Divorce ReformThe Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960sVietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic AllianceHeath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon ParkThe Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 StrikeThe Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' StrikeNorthern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to SunningdaleThe Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of DiscontentFeminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970sPunk and the New Politics of the 1970sBritain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 ReferendumThe Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
Topic overviewStalin's Death and the System He LeftKhrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party GroupThe Secret Speech and De-StalinisationThe Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the ThawThe Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural FailureThe Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign PolicyThe Fall of KhrushchevBrezhnev and His Leading ColleaguesThe Kosygin Reforms and Economic StagnationDetente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold WarDissidents and Nationalist Unrest under BrezhnevAndropov, Chernenko and the Rise of GorbachevGorbachev's Aims and PerestroikaGlasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold WarChernobyl, Economic Restructuring and DemocratisationThe Opposition to GorbachevThe August Coup and the End of the USSRYeltsin and Shock TherapyPutin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
- 14 subtopics
- 64 things to know
- Component 2
What 2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 covers
Option 2Q is a depth study of post-war America, taken as one of the Component 2 choices. It covers the presidencies from Truman to Carter, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and the changing idea of the American Dream.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
A depth study, of which a student sits one.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 14 subtopics
Each one has its own page. AQA AS History students sit this topic in the first year.
- American Power and Politics in 1945Recall questions on the United States' share of world manufacturing and gold, the growth of presidential power and the divisions among Democrats.Open →
- Truman and the Fair DealRecall questions on how Truman became president in 1945, 'The Buck Stops Here' and his leadership style, and the Fair Deal proposals on healthcare, schools, racial equality and workers' pay.Open →
- Containment, NATO and the Korean WarRecall questions on the origins of the Cold War, Kennan's containment, the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, the founding of NATO, the Communist victory in China and the Korean War to MacArthur's dismissal.Open →
- Taft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismRecall questions on reconversion and the strikes of 1946, the Taft-Hartley Act, the conservative coalition, Truman's 1948 victory and the Dixiecrats, and McCarthy, HUAC, Hiss, the Rosenbergs, loyalty checks and the McCarran Act.Open →
- Civil Rights in the Truman YearsRecall questions on wartime migration and the Double V campaign, Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement, the NAACP, CORE and Randolph, To Secure These Rights and Executive Order 9981, and Smith v. Allwright and Shelley v. Kraemer.Open →
- Eisenhower and Modern RepublicanismRecall questions on what dynamic conservatism meant for the surviving New Deal programmes and on Eisenhower's fiscal caution.Open →
- The Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomyRecall questions on the part played by television, the Senate's censure, Eisenhower's indirect tactics and the prosperity of the decade.Open →
- Suburbia, the Highways and the New LookRecall questions on Levittown-style suburbs, the highway act of 1956, federal mortgage help and the critics of suburban life, and Eisenhower's New Look strategy of nuclear deterrence and Dulles's brinkmanship.Open →
- Hungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisRecall questions on the American reaction to the Soviet intervention of 1956, the refugees admitted and the crisis over Berlin in 1958.Open →
- Eisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATORecall questions on the leader America backed in Saigon, the aid it supplied, the end of the Korean War and the founding of SEATO.Open →
- Brown, Montgomery and Little RockRecall questions on Jim Crow in the South, Brown v. Board and Brown II, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the SCLC, Little Rock, Southern resistance, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and the sit-ins and founding of SNCC.Open →
- The Election of 1960Recall questions on the two candidates, the narrowness of Kennedy's win, the televised debates and the part played by his Catholicism.Open →
- The New Frontier and the Berlin WallRecall questions on why the New Frontier stalled, the Berlin Crisis and Wall of 1961, Kennedy's dealings with Khrushchev, the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, and his advisers in Vietnam and the fall of Diem.Open →
- Civil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963Recall questions on sit-ins, boycotts and the Freedom Rides, the SCLC and SNCC, Birmingham and the March on Washington, Southern resistance, Kennedy's shift on civil rights, and America's economy, poverty, women and youth by 1963.Open →
What you need to know
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What benefits did the GI Bill provide to veterans that contributed to post-war prosperity?
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What key character traits defined Truman's leadership style?
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What was the consequence of Chinese intervention in the Korean War in late 1950?
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Why did Truman dismiss General Douglas MacArthur in April 1951?
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What happened to prices after the removal of wartime price controls in 1946?
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What political coalition blocked most of Truman's Fair Deal proposals?
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How did Truman win the 1948 presidential election against Thomas Dewey?
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What was the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948?
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What was the most notable investigation conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee?
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How was transport segregated under Jim Crow laws?
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What tactics did CORE pioneer and what was the Journey of Reconciliation?
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What term described Eisenhower's political philosophy that accepted existing social programmes while limiting government growth?
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What fiscal approach was central to Eisenhower's 'modern Republicanism'?
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What 1954 event exposed McCarthy's bullying tactics to a national audience?
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How did television contribute to McCarthy's downfall in 1954?
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What were the key characteristics of the American economy during the 1950s?
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What role did television play in 1950s American consumer society?
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What type of housing development exemplified 1950s suburbanisation?
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Which federal mortgage programmes helped Americans move to the suburbs in the 1950s?
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What was Eisenhower's 'New Look' defence strategy?
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How did the USA verbally respond to the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956?
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Why did the American response to Hungary in 1956 reveal the limits of 'rollback' rhetoric?
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What happened in the U-2 incident of May 1960?
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What types of aid did the USA provide to South Vietnam under Eisenhower?
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What was the outcome of the CIA-orchestrated coup in Iran in 1953?
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What was the Southern Manifesto?
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Who were the two candidates in the 1960 presidential election?
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How did the first televised presidential debates contribute to Kennedy's victory in 1960?
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What was the 'New Frontier'?
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Why was much of Kennedy's New Frontier legislation blocked in Congress?
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When was the Berlin Wall constructed and what did it symbolise?
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What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
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What was the US role in the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Diem in November 1963?
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What organisation did Martin Luther King Jr lead, and what strategy did it promote?
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What was America's global position by 1963?
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How did Lyndon B. Johnson become President, and what was the outcome of the 1964 presidential election?
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How would you characterise Johnson's political personality?
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What was Medicare and who did it cover?
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What were the characteristics of the American economy during the mid-1960s?
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Why did economic stability become undermined by 1968?
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What was Operation Rolling Thunder and when did it begin?
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What did the Civil Rights Act 1968 (Fair Housing Act) prohibit?
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What was the Port Huron Statement and who issued it?
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Who popularised the Black Power slogan and when?
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Who were the three main candidates in the 1968 Presidential election?
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What happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that damaged the party's image?
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What was Nixon's 'Southern Strategy'?
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What desegregation policy did Nixon oppose, appealing to white suburban voters?
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When did Nixon declare a 'War on Drugs', and who did critics argue it was used to target?
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What unusual economic intervention did Nixon implement in 1971 to combat inflation?
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When were the Paris Peace Accords signed, and what did they achieve?
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What was CREEP, and how was it connected to Watergate?
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What three articles of impeachment did the House Judiciary Committee vote to recommend against Nixon?
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Who became president in 1974 after Nixon resigned, and what was his main challenge upon taking office?
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What was the public reaction to Ford's pardon of Nixon?
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What qualities did Carter emphasise in government, and what events had created the need for this approach?
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How did Carter's approach to the Soviet Union change during his presidency?
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What was Operation Eagle Claw, and when did it take place?
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How did inflation affect the American economy by 1980?
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How did the USA build its position in Asia under Eisenhower?
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How did Carter respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
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What discrimination did African-Americans face, and how did the movement respond?
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How did Nixon and Kissinger pursue both war and détente?
Take 2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
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Containment vs Rollback
Containment: strategy intended to prevent further expansion of Soviet influence. Rollback: strategy seeking to reverse existing Communist control.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What proportion of global manufacturing capacity did the United States possess after World War II?
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Approximately half of global manufacturing capacity.
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What financial asset did the United States hold the majority of globally after World War II?
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The world's gold reserves.
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In what areas had presidential executive powers expanded during World War II?
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Economic mobilisation, military command, and foreign policy decision-making.
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What two contrasting factions existed within the Democratic Party coalition in 1945?
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Northern liberals who supported labour unions and civil rights, and Southern conservatives who defended segregation and states' rights.
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What domestic and foreign policy positions did the Republican Party generally favour in 1945?
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Limited federal government, lower taxes, reduced regulation of business, and a more isolationist foreign policy stance.
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How did pent-up consumer demand from wartime rationing contribute to post-war prosperity?
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Consumers who had been unable to purchase goods during rationing were eager to spend once restrictions ended, driving economic growth.
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2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 revision questions
- Is 2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 examined at AS in AQA History?
- Yes. It sits in Component 2, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does 2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 cover in AQA AS-Level History?
- 14 subtopics: american power and politics in 1945, truman and the fair deal, containment, nato and the korean war, taft-hartley, the 1948 election and mccarthyism, civil rights in the truman years, eisenhower and modern republicanism, the fall of mccarthy and the fifties economy, suburbia, the highways and the new look, hungary, rollback and the berlin crisis, eisenhower, south vietnam and seato, brown, montgomery and little rock, the election of 1960, the new frontier and the berlin wall and civil rights under kennedy and america by 1963. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is 2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980 organised?
- By the AQA 7042 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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