Edexcel A-level History - Paper 1
Questions with Answers 2026
Updated.
Living Standards 1941-1980 got better - Answer Running water 69% in 1940 - 93% in 1960
Bath and Shower 56% in 1940 - 85% in 1960
Indoor toilets 60% in 1940 - 86% in 1960
Men who served got medical care and proper food
Families on less than $2,0000 halved during war
amount of wealth owned by top 5% decreased 23%-16%
Proportion of people in poverty fell
Living standards 1941-1980 didn't get better - Answer Billionaire dynasties like the
Rockefellers and Roosevelts whilst 1/3 of the population were in poverty between 1945 and
1960
Some goods unavailable due to rationing like beef, sugar and cars
1 million homeless by 1980
reluctance of Americans to aid poor trebled in 1970s
Lack of low income housing
Isolationism 1917-1980 - Answer Isolationists failed to prevent USA entering war
Succeeded in preventing involvement in league of nations
Refusal to join world court in 1935
FDR campaigned promised not to involve in foreign war
, Eisenhower ended Korea in his first year
LBJ increased number of troops in Vietnam every year
Anti-communism 1917-1980 - Answer Red scares bred fear and resentment
Demobilization post WW1 led to unemployment, blamed on immigrants and led to 1919 steel
strikes of 350,000
Palmer raids - 10,000 arrests
HUAC blacklisted 300 actors & directors
Alger Hiss & Rosenbergs
1954 McCarthy army hearings
Space race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nixon opened US up to China
Government intervention 1917-1980 - Answer 1920s it was not a thing (Republican
ascendancy)
Laissez Faire
FDR opened Americans up to more intervention
EBRA 1933 gave POTUS power over banking
1935 Social Security Act
Questions with Answers 2026
Updated.
Living Standards 1941-1980 got better - Answer Running water 69% in 1940 - 93% in 1960
Bath and Shower 56% in 1940 - 85% in 1960
Indoor toilets 60% in 1940 - 86% in 1960
Men who served got medical care and proper food
Families on less than $2,0000 halved during war
amount of wealth owned by top 5% decreased 23%-16%
Proportion of people in poverty fell
Living standards 1941-1980 didn't get better - Answer Billionaire dynasties like the
Rockefellers and Roosevelts whilst 1/3 of the population were in poverty between 1945 and
1960
Some goods unavailable due to rationing like beef, sugar and cars
1 million homeless by 1980
reluctance of Americans to aid poor trebled in 1970s
Lack of low income housing
Isolationism 1917-1980 - Answer Isolationists failed to prevent USA entering war
Succeeded in preventing involvement in league of nations
Refusal to join world court in 1935
FDR campaigned promised not to involve in foreign war
, Eisenhower ended Korea in his first year
LBJ increased number of troops in Vietnam every year
Anti-communism 1917-1980 - Answer Red scares bred fear and resentment
Demobilization post WW1 led to unemployment, blamed on immigrants and led to 1919 steel
strikes of 350,000
Palmer raids - 10,000 arrests
HUAC blacklisted 300 actors & directors
Alger Hiss & Rosenbergs
1954 McCarthy army hearings
Space race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nixon opened US up to China
Government intervention 1917-1980 - Answer 1920s it was not a thing (Republican
ascendancy)
Laissez Faire
FDR opened Americans up to more intervention
EBRA 1933 gave POTUS power over banking
1935 Social Security Act
