HISTORY OF ENGLAND
 History 211:  Topic 16
Socialist Britain

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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.
Reading Assignment
Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson,  Chapter 30-31
 

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