America 1920-1973 — GCSE Revision Notes

8 notes on America 1920-1973 for GCSE History.

The American People and the Boom of the 1920sThe 1920s in America are often called the Roaring Twenties — a decade… Prohibition and Organised CrimeProhibition was the ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation… Popular Culture in the 1920sThe 1920s saw a revolution in American popular culture. New… The Wall Street Crash and the Great DepressionOn 24 October 1929 — known as Black Thursday — panic selling on the… Roosevelt's New Deal, 1933-1939Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was elected President in November 1932,… Post-War America and McCarthyismAfter World War Two ended in 1945, the United States emerged as the… The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965The civil rights movement was the struggle by African Americans to… Malcolm X, Black Power, and the Later Civil Rights MovementWhile Martin Luther King Jr advocated non-violent protest and racial…

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