The USA, 1917–1941

A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications.

Ian Campbell (Author)

9780521568647, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 March 1998

68 pages
27.6 x 22 x 0.6 cm, 0.22 kg

A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications. The USA 1917-1941 looks at the history of the United States of America from the First World War to the entry of America into the Second World War in 1941, focusing on the boom-time years of the Roaring Twenties, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, and Roosevelt's New Deal.

America in 1917
The American success story
Poverty in America
The plight of the American farmers
Review: America's economic success
Old and new in America
Racial intolerance
Religious intolerance
The Red Scare
Prohibition and the gangsters
The role of women
Review: America in the 1920s
Causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash
Boom turns to bust
The Great Depression
The 1932 presidential election
Review: The collapse of the American economy
The principles behind the New Deal
The New Deal 1932–3
The New Deal and the farmers
The New Deal 1934–40
Franklin Delano Roosevelt – the individual
An assessment of the New Deal
America and the Second World War
Review: the New Deal in action.

Subject Areas: Educational: History [YQH]