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HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
History 211: Topic 16
Socialist Britain
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History 211 First Page I
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Syllabus
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Summer Syllabus I
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Identification
Items
While reading Chapters 30-31 of your
textbook, watch for
the following items. When you find the item in Chapters 30-31, identify
the object or person.
Hugh Dalton, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Third Industrial
Revolution, Sir Alec Douglas Home, John Profumo, Indian Congress Party,
Pandit Nehru King Farouk, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Tony Benn,
Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, |
Topics for Study
The following essay
questions should be guides for your reading of Chapters 30-31 The following essay questions will be included on
the Third Exam. You will write two essays on the third exam.
You will choose your exam essays.
1. Discuss British
policy in Asia, African, and the Middle East after World War II.
Evaluate its goals and success.
2.
Discuss the impact of the cold war on British political, foreign and
economic policy.
3.
Analyze the economic, political, spiritual, and psychological impact of
theoretical and applied science on contemporary British existence.
Cite specific scientists and their contributions.
4.
Critically discuss the effects that World War II and the ensuing cold
war had on the decolonization of the British Empire and the rise
of the new nation-states.
5. Discuss the steps
leading to and the problems of an independent India. Include the
years 1919-1947. |
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David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson, Chapter
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