context

Question 1

superpower relations 1943-1972

Answer 1

• reasons for the cold war
• early development in the cold war 1945-49
• the cold war in the 1950s
• the crisis : Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
• The thaw and moves towards Détente 1963-72

Question 2

A divided union : civil rights in the USA 1945-1974

Answer 2

• The red scare and McCarthyism
• Civil rights in the 1950s
• The impact of civil rights protests 1960 - 74
• Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam
• Nixon and Watergate

Question 3

The USA, 1918-1941

Answer 3

• the roaring twenties
• Increased social tension in the 1920s
• The USA in depression, 1929-1933
• Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1941
• The Opposition to the New Deal

Question 4

Changes in medicine, 1848-1948

Answer 4

• changes in medicine treatment and in understanding the causes of illness
• improvements in public health provision
• changes in surgery
• the changing role of women in medicine
• the impact of war and science and technology on medicine
• nightingale
• Chadwick
• Snow
• Simpson
• Lister
• Pasteur
• Ehrlich
• Koch