( 1 ) T(6th Sm.)-History-H/DSE-A-4/CBCS

2021

HISTORY — HONOURSPaper : DSE-A-4

(History of USA-II)

Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own wordsas far as practicable.

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( 2 )T(6th Sm.)-History-H/DSE-A-4/CBCS

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1. Answer the following questions : 1×15

(a) Which American President initiated the post-Civil War Reconstruction?

(b) Where was the first Ku Klux Klan established in America?

(c) Name any one labour organization of America.

(d) In which year the Populist Party emerge?

(e) Name any newspaper related to progressive Journalism that exposed urban corruption.

(f) Who introduced the Square Deal?

(g) Which American President declared the Spanish-American War of 1898?

(h) Who declared the Fourteen Points?

(i) Name the bomb that was dropped in on Hiroshima.

(j) On which date did the bombing at Nagasaki take place?

(k) What is the full form of NAACP?

(l) In which year the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded?

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(m) Name any film made by Charlie Chaplin.

(n) Name any novel written by Marc Twain.

(o) Who was the first US writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature?

2. Answer any four questions (250 words) : 5×4

(a) What do you understand by Radical Reconstruction?

(b) What were the main causes of the Depression of 1929?

(c) Do you think that the labour movements in America gathered strength as a response to the growthof big business?

(d) Write a short note on Spanish-American War.

(e) Define ‘Black Movement’.

(f) Trace the development of women suffrage movement in America.

(g) Write a short note on mass culture of the 20th century America.

(h) What were the major literary trends in 20th century America?

3. Answer any three questions (500 words) : 10×3

(a) How did the Reconstruction transform agrarian sector of America?

(b) Account for the growth of big business in the United States of America.

(c) What were the major initiatives of the New Deal? How can it be characterized?

(d) Was the First World War a catalyst for changes in the American view of world politics?

(e) Narrate the courses of Afro-American Movement in America.

(f) Discuss diferent phases of the religious movements in America.