Access to History: Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal: The USA 1890-1954 4th Ed
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Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series.
For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best.
The series:
- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way.
- Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams
- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk)
Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal: The USA 1890-1954
This title provides accessible and complete coverage of this period, from the presidential situation in 1890 and the reasons for entering the First World War, to the policies of the New Deal and the impacts of the Second World War. It charts the changing optimism of the time, from the apparent economic stability of the 1920s, the devastation of the Depression, to the optimism under Roosevelt's presidency.
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For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best.
The series:
- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way.
- Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams
- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk)
Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal: The USA 1890-1954
This title provides accessible and complete coverage of this period, from the presidential situation in 1890 and the reasons for entering the First World War, to the policies of the New Deal and the impacts of the Second World War. It charts the changing optimism of the time, from the apparent economic stability of the 1920s, the devastation of the Depression, to the optimism under Roosevelt's presidency.
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Product details
- Paperback | 240 pages
- 172 x 242 x 16mm | 480g
- 04 Aug 2008
- Hodder Education
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised
- 4th Revised edition
- 0340965886
- 9780340965887
- 161,495
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Table of contents
: Chapter 1 - A Changing Nation
: Introduction
: Historical Background
: The Political System
: The USA 1890-1920
: The Growth of Big Business and its Impact on the USA
: New Immigration
: The Populist Movement and Political Protest
: Growth of Empire
: Progressivism and the Progressive Presidents
: US Entry into the First World War
: Study Guide
: Chapter 2 - Problems and Tensions in the USA 1917-28
: A Changing Society
: The Presidency of Warren Harding
: Tensions in Society
: Religion and Morality
: The Old Versus the New
: Study Guide
: Chapter 3 - Prosperity?
: The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
: The Boom Years
: Reasons for Prosperity
: Problems in the Economy
: The Strength of the Economy
: Study Guide
: Chapter 4 - The Collapse of the Wall Street Stock Market, October 1929
: The Wall Street Crash
: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
: Effects of the Wall Street Crash
: Study Guide
: Chapter 5 - President Hoover and the Great Depression
: Introduction
: Herbert Hoover: His Background and Beliefs
: The USA During the Great Depression
: Why the Depression Lasted So Long
: Federal Government Policies
: The 1932 Presidential Election
: President Hoover: an Epitaph
: The Key Debate
: Study Guide
: Chapter 6 - Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-4
: Beginnings of Roosevelt's Presidency
: The First 100 Days and the First New Deal
: Alternatives to the New Deal
: The Character of the First New Deal
: Study Guide
: Chapter 7 - Roosevelt and the Later New Deals 1935-9
: Introduction
: The Second New Deal
: The 1936 Presidential Election
: Problems in the Second Term
: The Later New Deal
: The End of the New Deal
: Study Guide
: Chapter 8 - American Foreign Policy 1920-41
: Introduction
: US Foreign Policy in the 1920s
: Roosevelt's Foreign Policies 1933-9
: US Response to the European War
: Road to Pearl Harbour
: US Foreign Policy: An Overview
: Study Guide
: Chapter 9 - The New Deal in Retrospect
: Introduction
: Relief, Recovery and Reform
: Race and Gender
: Impact of the Second World War on the USA
: Political Legacy of the New Deal
: The Key Debate
: Conclusion
: Study Guide
: Chapter 10 - The USA and the Fear of Communism
: Introduction
: Postwar Prosperity
: Foreign Policy 1945-54
: Domestic Responses to Communism
: Conclusion
: Study Guide
: Glossary
: Index
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: Introduction
: Historical Background
: The Political System
: The USA 1890-1920
: The Growth of Big Business and its Impact on the USA
: New Immigration
: The Populist Movement and Political Protest
: Growth of Empire
: Progressivism and the Progressive Presidents
: US Entry into the First World War
: Study Guide
: Chapter 2 - Problems and Tensions in the USA 1917-28
: A Changing Society
: The Presidency of Warren Harding
: Tensions in Society
: Religion and Morality
: The Old Versus the New
: Study Guide
: Chapter 3 - Prosperity?
: The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
: The Boom Years
: Reasons for Prosperity
: Problems in the Economy
: The Strength of the Economy
: Study Guide
: Chapter 4 - The Collapse of the Wall Street Stock Market, October 1929
: The Wall Street Crash
: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
: Effects of the Wall Street Crash
: Study Guide
: Chapter 5 - President Hoover and the Great Depression
: Introduction
: Herbert Hoover: His Background and Beliefs
: The USA During the Great Depression
: Why the Depression Lasted So Long
: Federal Government Policies
: The 1932 Presidential Election
: President Hoover: an Epitaph
: The Key Debate
: Study Guide
: Chapter 6 - Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-4
: Beginnings of Roosevelt's Presidency
: The First 100 Days and the First New Deal
: Alternatives to the New Deal
: The Character of the First New Deal
: Study Guide
: Chapter 7 - Roosevelt and the Later New Deals 1935-9
: Introduction
: The Second New Deal
: The 1936 Presidential Election
: Problems in the Second Term
: The Later New Deal
: The End of the New Deal
: Study Guide
: Chapter 8 - American Foreign Policy 1920-41
: Introduction
: US Foreign Policy in the 1920s
: Roosevelt's Foreign Policies 1933-9
: US Response to the European War
: Road to Pearl Harbour
: US Foreign Policy: An Overview
: Study Guide
: Chapter 9 - The New Deal in Retrospect
: Introduction
: Relief, Recovery and Reform
: Race and Gender
: Impact of the Second World War on the USA
: Political Legacy of the New Deal
: The Key Debate
: Conclusion
: Study Guide
: Chapter 10 - The USA and the Fear of Communism
: Introduction
: Postwar Prosperity
: Foreign Policy 1945-54
: Domestic Responses to Communism
: Conclusion
: Study Guide
: Glossary
: Index
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About Peter Clements
Peter Clement is a retired Head of Humanities with an M Phil in Educational Research and MAs in American Studies and Education. He is an experienced examiner at 'A' level and GCSE. He has written titles in the Access to History, History + for Edexcel A Level and My Revision Notes series.
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