San Diego State University History Questions Paper

Please have part # and question #

Dosent have to be long answers

1. Why were the Ottoman and Qing Empires vulnerable to Western pressure in the nineteenth century?

2. What were the causes of the Crimean War and how did warfare change ?

3. What major changes / reforms occurred in Russia after the Crimean War?

4. Discuss the causes and consequences of the Taiping Rebellion.

Part 2
1. What factors led to the Latin American revolutions? What major challenges faced the new nations of the Western Hemisphere?

2. Discuss the threats to Mexico sovereignty from foreign powers after independence ?

3. Discuss the connection between the women’s rights movement and the abolition of slavery in America?

4. How did immigration patterns change in the nineteenth century and how did these changes affect the Western Hemisphere nations that received immigrants?

Part 3

1. How did the British nearly gain complete control of India between 1750- 1857?
2. How did British policy in India change as a result of the Sepoy Rebellion?

3. Discuss the origins of the colonization of Australia and New Zealand.

4. What were the causes and consequences of the revolution and Civil War in Mexico

5. What was this new labor migrations that occurred mid-nineteenth century?

part 4

1. Define the concept of Nationalism? What was significant about the unification of Germany and Italy?

2. How and why did liberalism and nationalism threaten the Austria-Hungarian and Russian Empires?

3. Describe the origins and the aims of the labor movement and socialism in the late nineteenth century?

4. How did technological innovation and economic growth affect the societies of the industrialized countries?

Part 5

1. What factors led to the emergence of a popular independence movement in India, and why did this movement lead to the establishment of two states, India and Pakistan, rather than to a single India?

2. What was significant about Gandhi’s Salt March to the Sea?

3. How and why did nationalist movements in Africa resemble or differ from the nationalist movements in India?

4. How did colonial rule developed Africa’s economies at the expense of the peoples livelihood and health?

Part 6

1. What were the causes and consequences of the Great Depression on the world?

2. How was Joseph Stalin’s going to achieve his Five Year Plans?

3. Could more vigorous action by the League of Nations have forestalled the descent into chaos?

4. Why were Mussolini and Hitler able to gain power and engage in territorial expansion with impunity prior to 1939? What were the causes for the Second World War?

5. What was the grand strategy for the war in Europe and the Pacific ? Why did Japan and Germany lose?
Part 7

1. How did the Cold War affect the economies and the environments of the superpowers and of the European nations?

2. Discuss the origins of the Cold War?

3. How did the Cold War affect Asian, and African countries? What were the major challenges facing the newly emerging nations in the postwar period?

4.Discuss Nixon’s secret plan for ending the Vietnam War?

Part 8

1. How did the Cold War and energy needs affect the political and social development of the Middle East?

2. What were the main causes for the Tiananmen Square Incident?

3. What were the foreign policies of President Reagan? Discuss the Iran Contra affair?

4. What were the causes for demise of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe?

part 9

1. What is globalization? How has it affected the world economy? Is every one a recipients of its benefits ?

2. What are the future challenges in the 21th century?