Skip to content
Skip to content
Go to teachers
Pupils
Choose exam board for KS4 Biology
Choose exam board for KS4 Chemistry
Choose exam board for KS4 Combined science
Choose exam board for KS4 Computer Science (GCSE)
Choose exam board for KS4 English
Choose exam board for KS4 French
Choose exam board for KS4 Geography
Choose exam board for KS4 German
Choose exam board for KS4 History
Choose tier for KS4 Maths
Choose exam board for KS4 Music
Choose exam board for KS4 Physical education (GCSE)
Choose exam board for KS4 Physics
Choose exam board for KS4 Religious education (GCSE)
Choose exam board for KS4 Spanish

Guidance

About us

Change unit

Modern depth studies

The USA, 1954–75 conflict at home and abroad

Year 11 • History • Edexcel
We've put the lessons in order helping you build on what you've learned before so it’s best to start with the first lesson of a unit.

Choose a lesson (35)

1
Segregation and discrimination in the USA
2
Civil rights organisations in the 20th century
3
Progress in education, 1954-60
4
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6)
5
Martin Luther King Jr and the early civil rights movement
6
Early opposition to the civil rights movement
7
The changing position of black Americans by 1960
8
Greensboro and the sit-in movement
9
Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)
10
The James Meredith case (1962)
11
The peace marches (1963) and Freedom Summer (1964)
12
The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)
13
Reasons why the civil rights movement was more successful from 1960 to 1965
14
The role of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement
15
The emergence of the Black Power movement
16
The Black Panther Party
17
The riots of 1965-67 and the Kerner Report (1968)
18
King's campaign in the North
19
How successful was the civil rights movement by 1975?
20
French Indochina
21
Containment and the Domino Theory
22
Vietcong resistance
23
Gulf of Tonkin incident
24
The Tet Offensive
25
US involvement in Vietnam
26
The effect of Vietnamisation on US policy in Vietnam
27
The expansion of the war into Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam, 1969-1972
28
Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US
29
Support for the Vietnam War in the US
30
Changing US policy in Vietnam, 1969-1972
31
Peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, 1968-1972
32
The Paris Peace agreement, 1973
33
US weaknesses in the Vietnam War
34
North Vietnamese strengths in the Vietnam War
35
Impact of the Vietnam War