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Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History The USA, 1954Ð1975: conflict at home and abroad Student Book
(2017)
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Book Details
Abstract
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Series Editor: Angela Leonard
This Student Book:
- covers the essential content in the new specification in an engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
- uses the 'Thinking Historically' approach and activities to help develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
- has 'Writing Historically' features that focus on the writing skills most important to historical success. This literacy support uses the proven Grammar for Writing approach used in many English departments
- includes lots of exam guidance, with practice questions, sources, sample answers and tips to support preparation for GCSE assessments.
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Timeline | 6 | ||
| Chapter 1: The development of the civil rights movement, 1954-60 | 8 | ||
| 1.1: Black Americans in the early 1950s | 9 | ||
| Segregation and discrimination | 9 | ||
| Civil rights organisations | 15 | ||
| Opposition: the Ku Klux Klan and southern racists | 19 | ||
| 1.2: Progress in education | 22 | ||
| Key features of the Brown v. Topeka case | 23 | ||
| The significance of events at Little Rock High School | 26 | ||
| 1.3: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact, 1955-60 | 31 | ||
| The causes of the boycott | 32 | ||
| The events of the boycott | 34 | ||
| Reasons for the success of the boycott | 35 | ||
| The significance of Martin Luther King | 37 | ||
| Importance of the boycott | 38 | ||
| After the boycott | 39 | ||
| The 1957 Civil Rights Act | 39 | ||
| The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) | 40 | ||
| Recap page | 41 | ||
| Writing Historically | 42 | ||
| Chapter 2: Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960-75 | 44 | ||
| 2.1: Progress, 1960-62 | 45 | ||
| The Greensboro sit-in | 45 | ||
| The Freedom Riders | 48 | ||
| The James Meredith case, 1962 | 49 | ||
| 2.2: Peaceful protests and their impact, 1963-65 | 52 | ||
| The campaign in Birmingham, Alabama | 52 | ||
| The March on Washington, 28 August 1963 | 55 | ||
| Freedom Summer, 1964 | 56 | ||
| Selma | 57 | ||
| 2.3: Malcolm X and Black Power, 1963-70 | 62 | ||
| Malcolm X | 62 | ||
| Black Power | 64 | ||
| The Black Panthers | 67 | ||
| 2.4: The civil rights movement, 1965-75 | 70 | ||
| King’s campaign in the North | 72 | ||
| The Assassination of Martin Luther King | 74 | ||
| Recap page | 78 | ||
| Chapter 3: US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1954-75 | 79 | ||
| 3.1: US involvement in Vietnam, 1954-63 | 80 | ||
| The end of French rule in Vietnam | 80 | ||
| Greater involvement under Eisenhower | 83 | ||
| Greater involvement under Kennedy | 86 | ||
| 3.2: Escalation under Johnson | 90 | ||
| The Gulf of Tonkin incident, 1964 | 91 | ||
| 3.3: The nature of the conflict, 1964-68 | 96 | ||
| Vietcong guerrilla tactics | 96 | ||
| US tactics | 98 | ||
| The Tet Offensive, 1968 | 104 | ||
| 3.4: Changes under Nixon, 1969-73 | 107 | ||
| The Nixon Doctrine | 107 | ||
| Vietnamisation | 108 | ||
| Nixon expands the war | 110 | ||
| Recap page | 115 | ||
| Writing Historically | 116 | ||
| Chapter 4: Reactions to US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-75 | 118 | ||
| 4.1: Opposition to the war | 119 | ||
| Initial reactions to the war | 119 | ||
| Reasons for growing opposition to the war | 120 | ||
| The media | 123 | ||
| The My Lai Massacre, 1968 | 124 | ||
| The Kent State shootings | 126 | ||
| Political opposition | 127 | ||
| 4.2: Support for the war | 131 | ||
| Fear of communism | 131 | ||
| Patriots and ‘hard hats’ | 133 | ||
| The ‘silent majority’ | 135 | ||
| 4.3: The war ends | 138 | ||
| Negotiations up to 1972 | 138 | ||
| The Paris Peace Accords | 140 | ||
| The cost of the war for the USA | 141 | ||
| 4.4: Why did the USA fail in Vietnam? | 144 | ||
| The strengths of North Vietnam | 145 | ||
| Recap page | 151 | ||
| Explaining why historians’ interpretations differ | 152 | ||
| Historians focus on difference things | 152 | ||
| Historians reach different conclusions from the evidence | 153 | ||
| The USA, 1954-1975: conflict at home and abroad: Preparing for your exam | 154 | ||
| Answers | 165 | ||
| Index | 166 |