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Selected Themes In The History Of The Usa Since 1900 Question Paper

Selected Themes In The History Of The Usa Since 1900

Course:Bachelor Of Education History

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

AHT 432:
SELECTED THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA SINCE
1900

DATE: Friday, 16th April, 2010

TIME: 4.30 p.m. ? 6.30 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer any THREE questions.
1.
US expansion abroad at the turn of the twentieth century was exclusively shaped by its foreign police elite. Do you agree?

2.
Analyse the view that World War I was merely a vehicle for internationalizing Wilsonian and American system of belief.

3.
Discuss Booker T. Washington?s policies of racial self-help and political accommodation.

4.
In what ways is the accelerated production of mass cultures in the 1920s connected to the profound transformation of the industrial base in American society?

5.
To what extent did the New Deal stand out as a watershed moment in twentieth
century US history?

6.
The World War II made the USA once again a land of opportunity and hope. Discuss.

7.
Explain how the civil rights movement transformed American society?

8.
Discuss whether the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the US inaugurated a post racial society?