Paper 3 — Modern depth: USA 1954–75, Conflict at home and abroad
Edexcel GCSE History revision on Paper 3 — Modern depth: USA 1954–75, Conflict at home and abroad. Aligned to the Pearson Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0 specification. This bank has 80 practice questions on this topic.
Sample questions (3 of 80)
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Question 1
The Roaring Twenties was a period of...
- A) Depression + poverty
- B) Economic boom + cultural change in 1920s America
- C) World war
- D) Russian revolution
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Answer: Economic boom + cultural change in 1920s America
After WWI, US economy boomed - mass production (Ford Model T), consumer goods (radios, washing machines), jazz music, cinema, flappers (women asserting independence), illegal alcohol (Prohibition 1920-33). BUT: farmers struggled, racism persisted, immigration restricted. Stock market boom led to Wall Street Crash October 1929.
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Question 2
Prohibition (1920-33) banned...
- A) Smoking
- B) Manufacture + sale of alcoholic drinks
- C) Voting
- D) Music
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Answer: Manufacture + sale of alcoholic drinks
Driven by religious + temperance movements. Result: illegal speakeasies, bootlegging (smuggling), corruption, organised crime (Al Capone in Chicago). Drinking actually increased among middle class. Government lost tax revenue, gangsters grew rich. Repealed in 1933 as Great Depression made alcohol tax revenue + jobs urgently needed.
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Question 3
The Wall Street Crash happened in...
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Answer: 1929
Stock market peaked September 1929 after years of speculation + buying on margin (borrowed money). Crashed dramatically in October. Lost ~50% of value in three weeks; bottomed in 1932 at ~10% of peak. Triggered the Great Depression - by 1933, 25% unemployment, 9000 banks closed, GDP halved. Affected the entire world.
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