Generational conflict
What Generational conflict means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Deep social tensions created when 1960s youth movements actively challenged their parents' complicity in the Nazi past, rather than sharing the 1950s desire for amnesia.
The ‘young hooligans’, including Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru, pushed for complete independence, which the Lahore Congress adopted as purna swaraj.
Topics that use Generational conflict
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – Division to unity: the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1991 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Changing political relationships, 1920–30 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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