Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.12: Political developments in the USA and Canada (1960–2020) Questions
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What event in Dallas on 22 November 1963 halted Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill before it could pass?
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Which president reformed welfare in 1996 and oversaw a tech-driven economic boom, but was also impeached over the Lewinsky scandal?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the failure of Quebec separatism between 1970 and 1995 was due to the discrediting of violence, rather than a genuine lack of support for independence?
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In what month and year did Richard Nixon resign the presidency to avoid certain impeachment?
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Choose the correct statement about Lester B. Pearson's government (1963-1968).
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Choose the correct statement about the October Crisis of 1970.
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Which Canadian prime minister's government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2008 with a formal apology for residential schools?
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What major event in Canadian party politics took place in 2003?
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Which strategy did Richard Nixon use in 1968 to win over white southern Democrats angry about civil rights, contributing to a long-term shift of the South from Democratic to Republican?
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What did Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's invoking of the War Measures Act on 16 October 1970 immediately follow?
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Discuss the view that the Quiet Revolution's most important consequence was the rise of violent, rather than peaceful, Quebec nationalism.
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To what extent do you agree that Canada's economic policy between 1993 and 2015 was shaped more by fiscal caution than by responses to external crises?
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To what extent do you agree that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission achieved meaningful reconciliation for Indigenous peoples in Canada by 2020?
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Evaluate the claim that Pierre Trudeau's decision to invoke the War Measures Act during the October Crisis of 1970 was a justified response to the FLQ crisis.
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What was the approximate result of the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum?
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Which Quebec premier led the government that began the Quiet Revolution in 1960?
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Which piece of legislation banned discrimination in employment, schools, and public places on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin?
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Choose the correct description of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA.
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Choose the correct statement about the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
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Choose the correct statement about the collapse of Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party in 1993.
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