History GCSE

Question 1

Hire purchase

Answer 1

Instead of paying all at once for something you could buy the same product but pay in monthly instalments. This means you could save money while still being able to buy the things the family wanted

Question 2

Roosevelt

Answer 2

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 3

The Lindbergh Flight

Answer 3

He flew from New York to Paris. The flight took 33.5 hours to get to Paris. He immediately became a superstar.

Question 4

Music and dancing

Answer 4

The dance marathon was a competition in which you would dance until you fall asleep. Jazz was the most popular music at the time. For the first time whites were exposed to black peoples music.

Question 5

The Great Depression

Answer 5

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.

Question 6

Entertainment

Answer 6

For entertainment people would spend their free time doing competitions such as flag pole sitting and dance marathons.

Question 8

Farmers

Answer 8

Even with the boom farmers didn’t gain much from it and possibly also lost from it. Because of mass production, they made too many crops and the prices lowered. But people didn’t need that many and so the farmers lost profit.

Question 9

Rugged individualism

Answer 9

Rugged individualism, derived from “individualism”, is a term that indicates the ideal whereby an individual is totally self-reliant and independent from outside, usually state or government, assistance.

Question 10

Silly games

Answer 10

They would play Mah Jong and crosswords. The would have flagpole sitting competitions for fun where you would just sit on a pole all day and would possibly win something.

Question 11

The New Deal

Answer 11

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression.

Question 12

Herbert Hoover

Answer 12

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.

Question 13

Mass production

Answer 13

This term describes the production of products on a massive scale. Instead of Henry ford producing a car every 12 hours down to every 30 minutes with moving assembly lines. Many people didn’t gain from mass production. Such as farmers because then their products became too cheap to buy they were loosing money

Question 13

Movies

Answer 13

MGM, Warner bros and paramount were big movie companies.

Charlie Chaplin earned $1500 a week. Aged 28 Charlie signed Hollywood’s over $1million contract.

Question 14

Who was Martin Luther King?

Answer 14

Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the famous March on Washington.

Question 15

The SNCC

Answer 15

The SNCC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. The SNCC soon became one of the movement’s more radical branches

Question 16

Who was Malcolm X

Answer 16

Malcolm X , original name Malcolm Little, Muslim name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, (born May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died February 21, 1965, New York, New York), African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s.

Question 17

Who was Rosa Parks

Answer 17

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.

Question 18

The civil rights movement

Answer 18

The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. … By the mid-20th century, African Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them.

Question 19

The bus boycott

Answer 19

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.

Question 20

Black Power

Answer 20

Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent. It is used primarily, but not exclusively, by African Americans in the United States. The Black Power movement was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values.

Question 21

New Frontier

Answer 21

The term New Frontier was used by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration’s domestic and foreign programs.

Question 22

Great society

Answer 22

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Question 23

Feminism

Answer 23

Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those societies. Efforts to change that include fighting gender stereotypes and seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are equal to those for men.

Question 24

What is communism

Answer 24

A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.

Question 25

Capitalism

Answer 25

An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 26

Halt a conference

Answer 26

The conference at Yalta held in the Crimea on February 4-11, 1945 brought together the Big Three Allied leaders. During this conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe’s postwar reorganization. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany.