ESSAY-TYPE QUESTIONS
WORLD HISTORY ON USA
- Why did USA adopt the policy of isolationism after the First World War? What reasons caused USA to abandon this policy during the Second world War and what were the benefits for its abandonment? June 2005
- What were the causes of the great Depression? Show how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to solve the problems caused by the Depression in America? June 1997
- What do you understand by the term Isolationism? In what ways and for what reasons was this policy a) implemented in the 1920s and the early 1930s and abandoned in the late 1930s and early 1940s. June 1999
- What were the ca4ses and effects 6f the Great Depression on USA during the late 1920s and early 1930s? What measure were taken by Hoover administration to redress the situation? June 2000
- Explain the importance in the History of the US and the world of any four of the following;
a) The New Deal policy
b) The Great society
c) The New Frontier
d) Marshal Plan and Truman doctrine
e) Civil Rights movements of Martin Lurther King Jr
f) Watergate Scandal in the 1970s June 2002 - What were the main effects on the American people of the Great Depression of 1929-33? What measures were taken by President Franklin Roosevelt to redress the situation? June 2002
- Show how and why the USA became involved in the Second World War. what contributions were made by USA to the allied war efforts between 1941-1945? June 2003