Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.15: Political developments in the United States (1945–1980) and Canada (1945–1982) Questions
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Choose the date on which Lyndon B Johnson took over the presidency after Kennedy's assassination.
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Choose the correct answer: Which of the following was a genuine domestic policy achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency?
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Choose the correct year in which Truman raised the federal minimum wage to 75 cents an hour.
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Choose the correct answer: Which event directly led to the discovery that Nixon had secretly taped Oval Office conversations?
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Choose the correct answer: Which Canadian prime minister introduced the Canadian Bill of Rights and extended unconditional voting rights to Indigenous peoples?
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Choose the correct answer: What was the main purpose of Gerald Ford's 'Whip Inflation Now' (WIN) campaign?
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Choose the term used to describe Eisenhower's approach of preserving New Deal programmes while limiting new federal government growth.
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Choose the correct answer: Who did the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap and murder during the October Crisis of 1970?
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Choose the piece of Great Society legislation that ended the immigration quota system favouring northern Europeans.
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Choose the event that led President Eisenhower to send federal troops to enforce school desegregation in 1957.
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Discuss the reasons why Canadian federal governments between 1957 and 1968 expanded the welfare state and promoted a distinct national identity.
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To what extent did Pierre Trudeau's use of the War Measures Act in 1970 threaten democratic rights in Canada?
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Analyse the impact of economic problems on the domestic political fortunes of American presidents between 1969 and 1980.
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Compare and contrast the ways in which two leaders, each from a different region, responded to a major domestic political crisis: Richard Nixon of the United States and Pierre Trudeau of Canada.
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To what extent was Kennedy's New Frontier a failure?
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Examine the causes and consequences of the Watergate scandal in the United States.
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Evaluate the reasons why Johnson succeeded in passing Great Society legislation where Kennedy had failed.
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Evaluate the successes and failures of Richard Nixon's domestic policies between 1969 and 1974.
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Analyse the impact of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) on American society.
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Examine the successes and failures of Truman's Fair Deal.
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