AQA A-level History USA: Making of a Superpower (7042/1K) - 24 May 2023 [Exam Chat]

I am actually doing quite similar stuff to this, some economy stuff in the early years too and all foreign policy really

Is it worth revising us society in the 1920s and 45-75?

Does anyone have a plan for this question:
The presidents of gilded age were weak.

I know you'd have to talk about the civil service reform, pendelton act 1883
But how would you structure it. Would you have to do a paragraph on each president or?

That question is horrible, first thing i would do is not pick it haha.
If i had to answer it i would go down the route of a president per paragraph but i don't think i know enough content.

That question is horrible, first thing i would do is not pick it haha.
If i had to answer it i would go down the route of a president per paragraph but i don't think i know enough content.

dont do that it would come across to the examiner as fact checking and story telling if a presidential question comes up i would definetely structure it in the way of mentioning for example civil service reform and how it progressed through each president in the guilded age reather than going "the president garfield made small changes to civil service blah blah then mckinley blah blah " more try go for a "civil service reform was achieved/not achieved well throughout the guilded age this shown through the laissez faire approach presidents such as mckinley had blah blah"

i have sneaking suspicion the extract question may be about cold war or politics during FDR there hasnt been any mention of that only a cold war 25 marker a few years back but it being an extract question it could be a possibility

Yes it has to be on foreign policy because it has been on the economy or society for the past couple of years

if it is i really hope its 45-75 because my knowledge is very limited on foreign policy before that i guess i can sort of talkl about imperialism such as accidental empire or progressive imperialism and obviously in the earlier years the monroe doctrine and the lack of involvement with other countries honest i hate foreign policy id much rather have a society extract but i know that is highly unlikely

i have sneaking suspicion the extract question may be about cold war or politics during FDR there hasnt been any mention of that only a cold war 25 marker a few years back but it being an extract question it could be a possibility

Yeah I hate foreign policy too. Lets hope if it is foreign policy it is from 1945-75. Also do you think there would be a african american question as one of the 25 marker? I'm not sure because last year there already was

FDR and new dealsSociety Cold war

Anyone doing this topic for A Level history, this can be the exam chat and thread if there is enough people
Now its only 2 weeks until the exam how's the revision going for everyone, and does anyone have any predictions for what could come up?

There was an essay question about FDR last year so idk how likely they are to ask about him 2 years in a row