w w w e tr .X m eP e ap UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level .c rs om 2059/01 May/June 2012 PAKISTAN STUDIES Paper 1 History and Culture of Pakistan Additional Materials: * 1 3 8 3 7 5 8 8 7 7 * 1 hour 30 minutes Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all
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missiles - Sputnik NASA‚ education more of an issue - Operation Wetback – stop increasing immigration - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 - Little Rock Crisis – sent federal troops to Little Rock to enforce court orders to desegregate schools - McCarthyism - Expanded Social Security - NASA - “New Look” Foreign Policy - Brinksmanship: the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve optimal results - Pactomania - Ended Korean war - Opened relations with
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TTP9 Pop Culture as History: The War Comes Home After World War II‚ the United States faced a malevolent philosophical dispute that had spread from within itself. Chapter nine in Thinking Through the Past is titled “Pop Culture as History: The War Comes Home” because it identifies America’s disposition over the subject of communism during the Cold War era. Historian Stephen J. Whitfield writes his secondary source entitled‚ “The Culture of the Cold War” which presents a detailed analysis pertaining
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desegregation in the U.S. military in 1948 but was not perfected until the year 1954. Ultimately‚ this became a symbol for Americans that the federal government wanted a change to occur and the action illustrated that desegregation would work. Thus‚ encouraged‚ civil rights groups used the time to build up momentum for what was to come during the 1960’s.
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McCarthyism and The Crucible It has been said many times that if people don’t learn from their mistakes they are doomed to repeat them‚ such is the case throughout history. There are many different examples of this‚ but one example is the blatant similarities between the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts and the era of McCarthyism. When considering the nature of these events‚ it is hard to believe that they could have actually happened‚ not would only once‚ but twice. If one would take the
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the crucible is a dramatized and partially fictionalized play of the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism ( practice of making accusations of disloyalty‚ subversion‚ or treason without proper regard for evidence. )‚ when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had
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many aussie golfers playing in the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) and none of them were winning anything. That was until 1947 when Peter Thomson turned professional. Thomson was a prolific tournament champion around the world‚ winning the national championships of ten countries (he won the New Zealand Open nine times). He competed on the PGA tour in 1953 and 1954 with little success. However‚ in 1956 after only playing in just eight events‚ he won the Rich Texas International‚ and achieved
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Chapter 40 - The Eisenhower Era 1952 – 1960 1. The Advent of Eisenhower 1. Election of 1952: Democrats not favored- had not succeeded in Korea‚ Truman had retired McArthur‚ war had caused inflation‚ and there were accusations of scandal amongst communist-hunters 2. Democrats chose Adlai E. Stevenson‚ the witty‚ eloquent‚ idealistic governor of Illinois 3. Republicans rejected isolationist Robert A. Taft and instead chose World War II hero Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for
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Prior to 1900’s * Unequal Treaties unfair for China * Qing Dynasty (1644 1912) * 1842: War over trade Britons want to trade Chinese opium for their tea C don’t want opium B and C battle it out C lose disastrously leads to Treaty of Nanjing: B gets Hong Kong starts to take over parts of China * extraterritoriality: citizens of ruling country abide by their own country’s laws * Most Favored Nation status: * 1844: Treaty of Whampoa French open up
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the Crucible is a fictional play that centers around the Salem Witch Trials. The novel can also be classified as an example of an allegory. The allegorical meaning of the Crucible is that it can be a representation of the Red Scare‚ the HUAC‚ and McCarthyism. The Red Scare was the promotion of fear of the potential rise of communism after World War II. Communism was the abolition of the power of people over people‚ where the government holds all assets. Many people in America feared that they would
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