Features
- Authoritative and comprehensive text, written by experienced IB History examiners, covering one topic per title, to help students adopt an investigative and thorough approach to their study.
- Activities throughout the chapters to encourage an exploratory and inquiring approach to historical learning.
- A wide range of primary and secondary sources to develop students’ analytical skills.
- Opportunities for balanced historical debate to inspire engagement with multiple historical perspectives and interpretations.
- Links to Theory of Knowledge concepts to stimulate reflective discussion.
- Key Concept links to highlight how the 6 new key concepts can be integrated into the course.
Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Political and economic causes of the Great Depression in the Americas:
- 2.1. What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in the US?
- 2.2. What was the Wall Street Crash and why was it so important?
- 2.3. Who was most responsible for the Great Depression?
- 2.4. What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in Latin America?
- 2.5. What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in Canada? Chapter 3. The US and the First New Deal:
- 3.1. What was the impact of the Great Depression on the United States?
- 3.2. How effectively did Hoover deal with the problems caused by the Depression?
- 3.3. How effective was the first New Deal in solving the problems caused by the Depression?
- 3.4. What was the significance of the first One Hundred Days?
- Chapter 4. Opposition, criticism and the Second and Third New Deals: 4.1. Why was there opposition to the New Deals?
- 4.2. Who opposed the New Deals?
- 4.3. Did the New Deal benefit everyone?
- 4.4. What was the impact of the criticism?
- 4.5. How successful were the Second New Deal?
- 4.6. Was there a Third New Deal?
- Chapter 5. The nature and efficacy of solutions in Canada: the ministries of Mackenzie King and R. B. Bennett 1929-39:
- 5.1. What was the impact of the Great Depression on Canada?
- 5.2. Why did Mackenzie King and the Liberals lose the 1930 election?
- 5.3. How successfully did the Conservative government of R. B. Bennett deal with the problems caused by the Depression?
- 5.4. How successfully were provincial responses to the problems caused by the Depression?
- 5.5. How far did the Mackenzie King government of 1935 solve the problems caused the Depression?
- Chapter 6. Latin America's response to the Depression:
- 6.1. What was the economic situation in Latin America by 1930?
- 6.2. How and with what success did Vargas attempt to deal with the effects of the Great Depression in Brazil?
- 6.3. What was Import Substitution Industrialisation and how successful was it?
- Chapter 7. The impact of the Great Depression on US society: African-Americans, women and minorities:
- 7.1. What was the position of African-Americans and other minority groups in the US in the late 1920s?
- 7.2. What was the impact of the Depression on African-Americans and other minority groups within the US?
- 7.3. To what extent did the Depression change the position of women in the USA?
- Chapter 8. The Great Depression and the arts in the US:
- 8.1. How did the Depression influence the development of photography?
- 8.2. How did the Depression influence the development of the film industry?
- 8.3. How were literature and drama affected by the Depression?
- 8.4. How did the Depression influence the development of the radio industry?
- Chapter 9. Exam practice
- Further Reading
- Index.
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