Order Description
a) locate your work within key debates in the academic literature b) evaluate evidence c) use evidence to develop an argument in answer to the question d) write clearly and precisely.
1. Why did Western European powers decolonise in Africa?
2. Can decolonisation by explained primarily by economic or political factors?
3. Why did the UN proposal for the partitioning of the Palestinian mandate fail?
4. Why did the Arab countries invade Israel in 1948?
5. Why did America commit ground troops in Vietnam?
6. Why did America fail to achieve victory in Vietnam?
7. Why did the Cold War end?
8. The Cold War ended primarily because of a people’s revolution against Soviet authority in Eastern Europe. Discuss.
9. Why did Western powers engage in ‘humanitarian military intervention’? You may confine your answer to one or more examples.
10. Why did America and Britain commit ground troops to Afghanistan and Iraq?
11. Why did Al Qaeda emerge?
12. What motivates contemporary international terrorists?