M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2017
Second Semester
History
HISTORY OF USA FROM AD 1861 TO AD 1974
(2016 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. Assassination of Lincoln.
2. Black codes.
3. Andrew Carnegie.
4. Standard Oil Company.
5. Havana Incident.
6. Lusitania.
7. Stock Market Crash.
8. Hiroshima-Nagasaki.
9. Martin Luther King.
10. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Sub. Code
415203
RW-104
2
wk12
Part B x 5 25)
Answer the questions in about 200 words each.
11. Analyse the achievements of Abraham Lincoln.
Or
Write a note on Ku Klux Klan.
12. Discuss the various causes for the growth of Big
business in USA.
Or
Analyse the various causes for the failure of
Populist Party.
13. Describe the Big Stick Diplomacy.
Or
Explain the 14 points of Woodrow Wilson.
14. What do you know about the policy of New Deal?
Or
Examine the circumstances leading to the
participation of USA in the Second World War.
15. Why did the USA intervene in the affairs of
Vietnam?
Or
Discuss the role of USA in the Gulf War of 1991.
RW-104
3
wk12
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
500 words each.
16. Critically examine the plan of reconstruction in the South
after Civil War.
17. Describe the social and economic changes during the
Industrial era.
18. Analyse the role of Wilson in the history of U.S.A.
19. Bring out the significance of the great depression of 1929.
20. Estimate the services of John F. Kennedy to U.S.A.
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