The Roaring Twenties

Key topics

1. America before 1919
2. How did America react to the end of WWI?
• Political Isolationism
• Economic Isolationism
• Social Isolationism and Intolerance
3. The American economy in the 1920s
4. How far was society changing in the 1920s? [POWER]
• Prohibition and Organised Crime
• Women’s lives
• Entertainment revolution
• Race Relations
• Religious reaction
5. Culture wars: change and reaction

Revision resources are available on this page.

 

Resources

Textbooks:
Terry Feihn, et al., The USA Between the Wars 1919-1941: a study in depth (SHP).
R. Bunce, et al., International GCSE History Student Book, 2nd edition (Edexcel);
B. Walsh, GCSE Modern World History, section 7, pp. 183-210 (Walsh).

N.b. We will mainly follow Walsh but also refer to the SHP and Edexcel texts.

Web

As always, make use of the resources available – for example, see John D Clare on this section as on others.

See also the excellent BBC bitesize.