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IB Internal Assessment – History
Internal Assessment Topics

1 Was the slave trade in the British colonies motivated primarily by racial prejudice or economic profit?
a. Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1882. 1968
b. Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom. 1975

2 Was the American Revolution primarily ideological or social?
a. Becker, Carl. Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England. 1920
b. Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. 1967

3 What were the motives of the founding fathers in creating the Constitution?
a. Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. 1913
b. Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. 1969

4 What were the roots and characteristics of Jacksonian democracy?
a. Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Age of Jackson. 1945
b. Remini, Robert. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 (1981) and …the
Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (1984)

5 What was the nature of the slavery system in the US in the 19th century?
a. Elkins, Stanley. Slavery: A Problem in Institutional and Intellectual Life. 1959
b. Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. 1974

6 To what extent was Andrew Jackson’s policy toward the Native Americans motivated by humanitarian impulses?
a. Remini, Robert. Andrew Jackson and his Indian Wars. 2001
b. Wallace, Anthony F.C. The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. 1993

7 Why did the North win/South lose the US Civil War?
a. McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. 1988
b. Escott, Paul. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism 1978

8 To what extent should Abraham Lincoln get credit for ending slavery?
a. Klingaman, William. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. 2001
b. Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. 1996
c. Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1984

9 What was the primary cause of the US Civil War?
a. Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. 1976
b. Donald, David Herbert. Liberty and Union. 1978

10 To what extent was Reconstruction a success in gaining equality for the freed slaves?
a. Stampp, Kenneth. The Era of Reconstruction. 1965
b. Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. 1988

11 What was the dominant factor in the US becoming an imperialist power at the end of the 19th century?
a. Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. 1959
b. Healy, David. Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean. 1988

12 What were the roots of Progressivism?
a. Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR 1955
b. Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916. 1963

13 To what extent was the New Deal a departure form previous reform movements?
a. Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Age of Roosevelt (3 vols.) 1957-1960
b. Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR 1955

14 To what extent was FDR an interventionist/isolationist before US entry into World War II?
a. Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. 1979
b. Divine, Robert. Roosevelt and World War II. 1969

15 Evaluate the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.
a. Ambrose, Steven. Eisenhower: The President. 1984
b. Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Cycles of American History. 1986

16 Why did the United States escalate the War in Vietnam?
a. Logevall, Fredrik, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in Vietnam.
University of California Press, 1999.
b. Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Harvard University Press. 2000.

17 Why did the Chinese Intervene in the Korean War
a. Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, & Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford University Press, 1993.
b. Chen Jian, China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. Columbia University Press, 1994.

18 Why did Khrushchev send Nuclear Weapons to Cuba?
a. Fursenko, Aleksanr & Timothy Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble:" Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958- 1964. W. W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1997.
b. Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford University Press. 1997.

19 What was the nature of Mao Zedong’s Communism?
a. Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics and Purges in China. 2nd Ed. 1993.
b. Breslin, Shaun, Mao. Longman Group, 1998.

20 Was Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler a mistake?
a. Paul Kennedy & Talbot Imlay “Appeasement.” The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered. Gordon Martel ed. 2nd ed. 1999.
b. A. J. P. Taylor The Origins of the Second World War. 1961

21 Was Hitler a “Normal German Statesman”?
a. Richard Overy “Misjudging Hitler: A.J.P. Taylor and the Third Reich.” The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered. Gordon Martel ed. 2nd ed. 1999.
b. A. J. P. Taylor The Origins of the Second World War. 1961

22 Why did North Korea invade South Korea in June of 1950?
a. Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, & Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford University Press, 1993.
b. William Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War.

23 What was the nature of the relationship between Mao and Stalin?
a. Chen, Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
b. Goncharov, Sergei, John W. Lewis, & Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Satlin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford University Press. 1993.

24 Why did Mao’s China and Khrushchev’s Soviet Union split in the 1960s?
a. Jian, Chen, Mao’s China & the Cold War. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
b. Zubok, Vladislav and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. Harvard University Press. 1996.

25 What caused the Great Leap Forward?
a. Breslin, Shaun, Mao. Longman Group, 1998.
b. Frederick C. Teiwes with Warren Sun, China’s Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959. 1999.

26 To what degree was Germany the cause of the Cold War?
a. Hope M. Harrison, Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet East German Relations. Princeton University Press, 2003.
b. Naimark, Norman M., The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949. Harvard University Press. 1995.

27 What issues motivated the drafting of NSC-68?
a. May, Ernest R., American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68. Bedford/St. Martin: Boston, 1993.
b. Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. Oxford University Press, 1982.
c. Gaddis, John Lewis, “NSC-68 and the Soviet Threat Reconsidered.” International Security. April, 1991.
d. Nitze, Paul, “The Development of NSC-68.” International Security. April, 1991.

28 What affect United States sponsored assassinations in Guatemala have on the future of Guatemala?
a. Marks, Fredrick W., "The CIA and Castillo Aramas in Guatemala, 1954: New Clues to an Old Puzzle," Diplomatic History. 14/1 (Winter 1990) 67-86.
b. Gleijeses, Piero, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton University Press, 1991.

29 What was the nature of Fidel Castro revolution in Cuba?
a. Blight, James G., and Brenner, Philip, Sad & Luminous Days, Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
b. Balfour, Sebastian. Castro. Longman Group, 1995.

30 Why was the wall built in Berlin in 1961?
a. Hope M. Harrison, Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet East German Relations. Princeton University Press, 2003.
b. Zubok, Vladislav M., "Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis (1958-1962)," Working Paper: Cold War International History Project. #6 (May 1993).

31 Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis not escalate into war?
a. Fursenko, Aleksanr & Timothy Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble:" Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. W. W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1997.
b. Bernstein, Barton, "Commentary: Reconsidering Khrushchev's Gambit-Defending the Soviet Union and Cuba," Diplomatic History. 14/2 (Spring 1990) 231-239.

32 Why did the Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor?
a. Ienaga, Saburo, The Pacific War: 1931-1945. Pantheon Books. 1978.
b. Iriye, Akira, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Longman, 1987.

33 Was Yalta a success or failure?
a. Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press, 1992.
b. Diane Shaver Clemens, Yalta. Oxford University Press. 1970.

34 Why did the United States drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan?
a. Bernstein, Barton J. "The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered." Foreign Affairs 74/1 (January/February 1995), 135-152.
b. Alperowitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.