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CSS History of USA Past Paper 2024

CSS History of USA 2024 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.

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How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.

Q. 2
Summarize the ideas and views expressed by the American diplomat George F. Kennan. How did these views shape US containment policy during the Cold War?
(20)
Q. 3
Analyze events that led to American in volvement in Vietnam. How and why did this involvement increase during the 1960s?
(20)
Q. 4
Critically evaluate the major causes of US entry in World War II examining how 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?
(20)
Q. 5
Put yourself in the shoes of US leadership, and think that the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan could have been avoided? Provide arguments supported by empirical evidence.
(20)
Q. 6
Identify and discuss five but not more than seven most significant factors leading to the outbreak of American Civil War 1861-1865. Do you think the Civil War was inevitable?
(20)
Q. 7
Given that US founders were so negative about political parties. Why did political parties historically form so easily? How did this feature, never mentioned in the Constitution, become a seemingly permanent fixture of the US political system?
(20)
Q. 8
Write short notes on any TWO of the following: (10 marks each)
(20)
- (a)
  Monroe Doctrine
  (10)
- (b)
  US involvement in the Korean War
  (10)
- (c)
  NATO
  (10)

Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.