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Led by Richard Hofstadter Simulacrum
A non-British depth study for OCR GCSE History A — the relationship between the American people and their government from the prosperity and prejudice of the 1920s through the New Deal to the transformations of the Second World War.
Led by Richard Hofstadter Simulacrum
The question
Who was the prosperity of the 1920s actually for? You will study the economic boom and Republican policy, the groups who shared in it and those who did not, the position of women and the Sheppard–Towner Act, Prohibition's aims and failure, and the era's prejudice — Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Scare, immigration restriction — alongside the response of the NAACP and the UNIA.
Outcome
You can explain the character of 1920s America by holding its genuine prosperity and its deep prejudice together, rather than treating either as the whole story.
Led by Richard Hofstadter Simulacrum
The question
How did the Depression remake what Americans expected of their government? You will study the effects of the Depression and the 1932 election, Roosevelt's First New Deal and the Alphabet Agencies, the Second New Deal including Social Security and the Wagner Act, and the reactions to the New Deal from across the political spectrum.
Outcome
You can explain how the Depression and the New Deal redefined the relationship between the American people and the federal government, and assess how far that redefinition went.
Led by Richard Hofstadter Simulacrum
The question
How did the war transform American society — and expose its central contradiction? You will study wartime mobilisation and the end of the Depression, the growth of government and presidential power, the social effects of the war, women and the war effort, Japanese internment, military segregation and Executive Order 8802, and the war as a foundation for the Civil Rights movement.
Outcome
You can explain how the war transformed American society and government, and analyse how the contradiction between fighting for freedom abroad and denying it at home laid the foundation for the Civil Rights movement.