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OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
Topic overviewThe location of Kenilworth CastleThe appearance and layout of Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyThe day-to-day functions of Kenilworth CastleThe evidence historians use for a castle’s changing functionLife in Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyKey events associated with Kenilworth Castle at different times in its history
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewEarly purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950sLand reform, collectivisation, the First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap ForwardCauses and impact of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards and TibetThe nature of Communist propaganda and its impactCommunism in China after the death of Mao 1976–1981The Communist state and the Chinese people
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the DepressionRising support for Nazis 1929–1933The Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934The Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's communityNazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective oppositionReaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945Racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the warDefeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955The state and the German people, 1925–1955
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Topic overviewThe Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920sThe Depression, the failure of the League and the road to warSoviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile CrisisOrigins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the warUS withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the warChanging interpretations of AppeasementChanging interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold WarThe big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewDiversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman ConquestJews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsionResident aliens in later medieval EnglandAfricans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communitiesThe readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugeesIndustrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and ChartismNaturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world warsThe impact of post-war migration on BritainImmigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010The big questions about migration to Britain
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Topic overviewRelationship between Parliament and Charles I 1629–1642Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649The execution of Charles I 1649The Rump, Cromwell and the Protectorate 1649–1658Attempts to reach a settlement September 1658 – April 1660The tensions that led to war, and the changes that followed
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
Topic overviewAnglo-Saxon kingship, 1066 and the Norman monarchyMagna Carta and the emergence of ParliamentRichard II’s deposition and the Wars of the RosesTudor government, personal rule and the Civil WarsThe Restoration, 1688 and the Bill of RightsThe rise of political parties and a parliamentary monarchyParliament and the people, c.1800–c.1918: reform and the unionsVotes for women, and the state in war and peaceChallenges to Parliament since 1980Claiming, keeping and losing power
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewConsolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and SharpevilleReasons for, methods of and impact of different types of resistanceThe further development of resistanceThe Anti-Apartheid Movement and the regime's response in the 1970sGrowing pressure on the regimeThe State of Emergency and the failure of total strategy 1985–1990Negotiations between the government and the ANCThe state and the South African people, 1960–1994
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
Topic overviewThe church in England c.1520 and its criticsPopular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation ParliamentCromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteriesImmediate reactions to Dissolution including supportResistance and protestDevelopment and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VIEnforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549The English Church before and after the Reformation
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
Topic overviewThe Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British IslesDarien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the AmericasEconomic impact of war and imperial expansionThe Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economyConsumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee housesIdeas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slaveryWhat empire did to Britain and the British Isles
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictionsJim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudiceEconomic and social effects of the Great Depression and government responseThe Second New DealThe mobilisation of the US people for the war effortSocial impact of the warThe Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forcesThe state and the American people, 1919–1948
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewFears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyismJim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movementOpposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and EisenhowerThe roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaignsBlack Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaignsThe impact of feminismStonewall, anti-war protest and the Great SocietyThe state and the American people, 1945–1974
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
Topic overviewWhen immigrant groups arrived, why and from whereSpitalfields: who came, when and whyWhere immigrants settled and how they were receivedSettling in Spitalfields, and how newcomers were receivedThe experiences of immigrantsWork, housing and faith in SpitalfieldsKey events in local migration historyAltab Ali, Brick Lane 1978 and other key events in SpitalfieldsThe impact of migration on the areaSpitalfields today: impact and the multicultural communityReading an urban site for its migration historyReading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewViking raids and the Norman ConquestThe feudal system and feudal military serviceWar in medieval society, c.1290–c.1450Elizabeth I’s wars with Spain, and English privateersBorder warfare, the Civil Wars and the Jacobite risingsImperial wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesThe Crimean War and the Boer WarsThe two world wars and the Cold WarThe IRA campaigns and conflict since 1945What war did to British people and their rulers
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the State
- 8 subtopics
- 24 things to know
- Paper 1
- Paper 1, one non-British depth study of five
What The USA 1945–1974: The People and the State covers
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the State is examined in Paper 1, Period study with non-British depth study. It covers fears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyism; Jim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movement; opposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and Eisenhower; the roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaigns; Black Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaigns; the impact of feminism; Stonewall, anti-war protest and the Great Society; and the state and the American people, 1945–1974.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Non-British depth study, one of five, sat with the period study.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 8 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Fears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyismWhy Communism at home was feared, the Loyalty Program and HUAC, the Freedom Train, Hollywood's films and the Pledge of Allegiance, J Edgar Hoover and the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten and the blacklist, The Crucible, and McCarthyism, its support and its end.Open →
- Jim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movementThe Jim Crow laws, segregated schooling, voting and work, Brown v Board of Education and southern delay, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, King's non-violent direct action and the March on Washington, and the NAACP, SCLC and SNCC.Open →
- Opposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and EisenhowerThe Ku Klux Klan, White Citizens' Councils, the Southern Manifesto, Faubus at Little Rock, Bull Connor in Birmingham, Emmett Till, the Supreme Court and Boynton v Virginia, Eisenhower's response, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and why protest still mattered.Open →
- The roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaignsKennedy's caution, the Freedom Riders, the June 1963 address, Johnson's use of Kennedy's death, the pressure for a new law, the Senate filibuster, what the Civil Rights Act outlawed, the new employment commission and voting rights.Open →
- Black Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaignsMalcolm X in and after the Nation of Islam, Stokely Carmichael and Black Power, the Black Panther Party and its effect on the movement, the American Indian Movement, Alcatraz and Wounded Knee, César Chávez and what Chicano campaigners won.Open →
- The impact of feminismBetty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, the founding of NOW and the women's liberation groups, Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, the Equal Pay Act, the use of the 1964 ban on sex discrimination, Eisenstadt v Baird and the Equal Rights Amendment.Open →
- Stonewall, anti-war protest and the Great SocietyThe Stonewall riots of 1969 and the first Pride marches, student protest against the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings, the Poor People's Campaign, Johnson's Great Society, Medicare and Medicaid, and Nixon's welfare pledge.Open →
- The state and the American people, 1945–1974The Fair Deal, the anti-Communist machinery, the War on Poverty, segregation policy, the GI Bill, housing, women's education, the draft, school prayer, the 1965 Immigration Act, support and dissent, the silent majority and Watergate.Open →
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What did the civil rights movement achieve between the Brown ruling of 1954 and the founding of the SCLC in 1957?
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How did white southerners resist desegregation in the 1950s and early 1960s?
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Why did many in the US government fear Communism at home after 1945?
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What happened to the Hollywood Ten in 1947?
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What was the Hollywood blacklist?
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What did the Supreme Court decide about segregated schools in 1954?
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What were the White Citizens’ Councils?
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How did Kennedy enforce James Meredith’s right to study at the University of Mississippi in 1962?
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How did Johnson use Kennedy’s death to advance civil rights?
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What did Malcolm X urge African Americans to do while he was in the Nation of Islam?
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Which two occupations drew attention to Native American grievances between 1969 and 1973?
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Who set up the Commission on the Status of Women, and when?
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Which court ruling of 1972 gave unmarried women the same right to contraception as married couples?
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What did Truman’s Fair Deal set out to do?
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Which parts of the federal machinery carried out the drive against Communism at home?
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What did Truman’s Federal Employees Loyalty Program of 1947 introduce?
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Why did so many Americans support McCarthy?
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Why did southern schools not desegregate quickly after 1954?
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What was the Southern Manifesto of 1956?
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What had built the pressure for a new civil rights law by 1964?
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What had Chicano campaigners won by the early 1970s?
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What did the Stonewall riots lead to in 1970?
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How was Johnson’s War on Poverty put into practice from 1964?
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Hollywood Ten vs Hollywood blacklist
Hollywood Ten: writers and directors cited for contempt of Congress in 1947 for refusing to answer questions. Hollywood blacklist: list of suspected Communist sympathisers the studios would not employ.
SCLC vs SNCC
SCLC: Martin Luther King's 1957 body organising non-violent protest through the churches. SNCC: student body of 1960 born of the sit-ins, favouring direct action on the streets.
Brown v Board of Education vs Boynton v Virginia
Brown v Board of Education: 1954 ruling that separating children by race in state schools was unconstitutional. Boynton v Virginia: 1960 ruling against segregation in interstate bus terminals, tested by the Freedom Rides.
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Why did many in the US government fear Communism at home after 1945?
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The Soviet Union had become a rival superpower, and officials believed Communist agents were secretly at work inside government, trade unions and the film industry.
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What did Truman’s Federal Employees Loyalty Program of 1947 introduce?
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Loyalty boards that investigated the political beliefs and associations of federal workers, who could be dismissed if judged disloyal.
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Which congressional committee investigated suspected Communist influence in American life?
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The House Un-American Activities Committee, which questioned witnesses about their own beliefs and about the people they knew.
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What was the Freedom Train that toured the country from 1947?
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A travelling exhibition of the founding American documents, sent from city to city to remind citizens of their national values.
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How did Hollywood help the campaign against Communism at home?
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Studios made anti-Communist films, such as The Red Menace of 1949, which showed Communists as deceitful enemies of ordinary Americans.
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What words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and why?
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The words ‘under God’, to mark the USA out from the officially atheist Soviet Union.
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- What does The USA 1945–1974: The People and the State cover in OCR GCSE History A?
- 8 subtopics: fears of communism at home, the red scare and mccarthyism, jim crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movement, opposition to civil rights and the role of the supreme court and eisenhower, the roles of kennedy and johnson in civil rights campaigns, black power, radical leaders, and native american and chicano campaigns, the impact of feminism, stonewall, anti-war protest and the great society and the state and the american people, 1945–1974. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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