Autumn Term Sep – Dec
America: Opportunity and inequality, 1920-1973
- Effectiveness of New Deal on society
- Hundred Days
- New Deal achievements and shortcomings
- Popular culture in 1930s
- Impact of WWII: Industry and employment
- Impact of WWII: Women and black Americans
- 1950s prosperity
- Television, rock n’ roll
- McCarthyism
- Racial Tensions and Civil Rights: legal challenges
- Peaceful protest
- Black Power
- Achievements of MLK and Civil Rights Act
- Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’
- Johnson’s ‘Great Society’
- Feminist movement
Spring Term Jan – Apr
Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
- Fear of communism
- Truman Doctrine
- 38th parallel
- USA and UN involvement
- Development of the Korea War: UN forces and China
- MacArthur
- Stalemate
- Peace talks
- End of French rule in Vietnam
- Civil War in South Vietnam
- The Viet Cong
- Eisenhower 1953-60 and Domino Theory
- Kennedy 1961-‘63
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Operation Rolling Thunder
Summer Term 1 Apr – July
Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
- Guerilla warfare
- American warfare and tactics
- US problems
- Tet Offensive
- Vietnamisation
- Increased US involvement
- Bombing of the North
- Opposition to the war: The media
- Anti-war protest movement
- Civil right leaders
- Peace talks
- Communist control of S.Vietnam
- The cost of war for Vietnam and the USA