CSS 2024 History of USA Past Paper

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Examination

CSS

Year

2024

Subject

History of USA

Paper

Single Paper

Subject type

Optional

Mode

Subjective

Questions recorded from this paper

These 7 question wordings are transcribed from CSS Vista’s structured History of USA past-paper record for CSS 2024.

1. Q7 · Constitution of the USA: Salient FeaturesGiven that US founders were so negative about political parties. Why did political (20) parties historically form so easily? How did this feature, never mentioned in the Constitution, become a seemingly permanent fixture of the US political system?
2. Q6 · Civil War between the North and the East (1850 - 1869)Identify and discuss five but not more than seven most significant factors leading (20) to the outbreak of American Civil War 1861-1865. Do you think the Civil War was inevitable?
3. Q4 · Post 1945 world scenario and emergence of USA and USSR as the Two WorldCritically evaluate the major causes of US entry in World War II examining how (20) the causes you mentioned developed, and why and how you believe they led to US participation in the war? Considering these causes, do you believe that US entry was inevitable?
4. Q2 · Integrated / Cross-Syllabus QuestionsSummarize the ideas and views expressed by the American diplomat George F. (20) Kennan. How did these views shape US containment policy during the Cold War?
5. Q3 · Integrated / Cross-Syllabus QuestionsAnalyze events that led to American involvement in Vietnam. How and why did (20) this involvement increase during the 1960s?
6. Q5 · Integrated / Cross-Syllabus QuestionsPut yourself in the shoes of US leadership, and think that the US invasions of Iraq (20) and Afghanistan could have been avoided? Provide arguments supported by empirical evidence.
7. Q8 · Integrated / Cross-Syllabus QuestionsWrite short notes on any TWO of the following: (10 marks each) (20) (a) Monroe Doctrine (b) US involvement in the Korean War (c) NATO

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