CSS History of USA Past Paper 2020
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. No. 2. Amongst the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive branches of the United States Government, which one of the government branches is much more powerful and why? Elaborate through the prism of the US Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances systems.
Q. No. 3. Even though Great Britain and the United States of America fought a Revolutionary War in the 1770s and the War of 1812, how did the two powers come closer in the later parts of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? Elaborate.
Q. No. 4. How did the American-Spanish War in 1898 raise the United States’ status as one of the leading world powers?
Q. No. 5. After the end of WWI (1914-1918), why did US President Woodrow Wilson fail to convince the US Congress to become part of the League of Nations despite his longstanding efforts for the creation of this International Organization through the prism of his Fourteen Points?
Q. No. 6. In the wake of WWII (1939-1945), two major powers, the US and the Soviet Union, emerged constituting a bipolar system. Elaborate conceptually if the bipolar world remained more peaceful and stable than the multipolar world in the pre-World Wars era.
Q. No. 7. Since the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, why does the United States desire to further expand NATO? Elaborate opportunities and challenges for the expansion of NATO.
Q. No. 8. The tectonic plates of international politics seem to shift away from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region, which the US President Barack Obama had termed as a “pivot to Asia” or “rebalancing” strategy. In the light of the changing geo-strategic environment, how could you see the rise of China vis-à-vis the US geo-strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region?