History A-Level
Republican dominance and its collapse after 1929
What Republican dominance and its collapse after 1929 means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Ascendancy resting on business confidence, laissez-faire economics and victories such as Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, discredited by the Depression by 1933.
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- The changing political environment, 1917–80 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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