Unit 3: Source Enquiry - A divided union? The USA 1945-1970

There are 4 main topics:

• McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
• The civil rights movement 1945-62, including Martin Luther King.
• The civil rights movement 1963-70, including Malcolm X.
• Other protest movements in the 1960s, including the Vietnam War, students and women.

Click on the links below for guidance on how to answer each source question.

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Question 5

Summary: how to answer source questions

Writing frames

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3 - A to C

Question 3 - support the view

Question 4 - reliability

Question 4 - usefulness

Question 5

Box templates

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Question 3

Question 4 - reliability

Question 4 - usefulness

Question 5