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Year 11

The USA, 1954–75 conflict at home and abroad

35 lessons

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  • Empire, persecution and resistance
  • Power, government and religion

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In this unit, pupils study a modern society and the issues that affected it in great depth over a shorter period. They learn about the key events, developments, people and stories that shaped this modern society over a period of around twenty to thirty years.

Having examined various societies and civilisations in breadth and depth across all key stages, pupils now turn to the study of a society that they have not yet encountered, with a particular focus on how social, economic, cultural and political developments interacted in their chosen society. After deepening their knowledge of one modern society, pupils are prepared to contrast this with the society in which they live today, or any modern socities they might encounter in future study.

  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

  • A working knowledge of the broad local, national and international developments that occurred in the centuries preceding the period being studied.
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