Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.8: Emergence of the Americas in global affairs (1880–1945) Questions
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Executive Order 9066, signed in February 1942, authorized which action?
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Choose the year in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the Good Neighbor Policy.
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Choose the year in which Brazil, under President Getúlio Vargas, declared war on the Axis powers.
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Which president's administration sent US troops into Nicaragua in 1912 to protect American financial interests, despite that policy relying primarily on loans and investment rather than military force?
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The Bracero Program, launched in 1942, was designed to do what?
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Choose the event that most directly triggered the US declaration of war on Germany in April 1917.
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Which federal agency was created in 1917 to direct US factories toward the production of shells, ships, and uniforms during the First World War?
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The 1901 Platt Amendment, written into Cuba's constitution after the Spanish-American War, gave the USA the right to do which of the following?
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What was the 'Red Summer' of 1919?
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Which naval officer argued that a nation could not become a great power without a strong navy supported by overseas bases and coaling stations?
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Choose the country whose 1938 nationalization of foreign-owned oil companies became a key test of the Good Neighbor Policy.
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Evaluate the claim that ideology, rather than economic interest, was the most important cause of US expansionism between 1880 and 1898.
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In February 1898, the explosion of which US battleship in Havana harbor became the immediate spark for the Spanish-American War?
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Which US president announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, claiming the US had the right to act as a 'police power' in the Western Hemisphere?
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Evaluate the claim that Woodrow Wilson's 'moral diplomacy' represented a genuine break from the expansionist policies of his predecessors, rather than a continuation of them under new language.
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The 19th Amendment, giving American women the right to vote, was ratified in which year?
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To what extent was the Panama Canal (completed 1914) the clearest example of US expansionism placing strategic self-interest above respect for the sovereignty of Latin American states?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Spanish-American War of 1898 was fought primarily as a war of liberation for Cuba, rather than a war of imperial ambition?
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Discuss the view that Roosevelt's 'big stick diplomacy', Taft's 'dollar diplomacy', and Wilson's 'moral diplomacy' were, in practice, three labels for the same underlying policy of US dominance in the Americas.
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Discuss the view that the Good Neighbor Policy represented a genuine transformation in US relations with Latin America rather than merely a cheaper method of maintaining the same control.
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