History A-Level
Popular culture and national identity
What Popular culture and national identity means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Popular culture and national identity
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Radio grew as a mass medium for news, while popular music, including swing, reflected wartime society.
Topics that use Popular culture and national identity
- Paper 2, Option 2H.1: The USA, c1920–55: boom, bust and recovery - 3 Impact of the New Deal and the Second World War on the USA to 1945 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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