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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2020
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2020
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
HISTORY OF USA
PART-II
Q. No. 2. Amongst the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive branches of the United States
Government, which one of the government branches is much more powerful and why?
Elaborate through the prism of the US Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
systems. (20)
Government, which one of the government branches is much more powerful and why?
Elaborate through the prism of the US Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
systems. (20)
Q. No. 3. Even though the Great Britain and the United States of America fought a
Revolutionary War in the 1770s and the War of 1812, how did the two powers come
closer in the later parts of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? Elaborate. (20)
Revolutionary War in the 1770s and the War of 1812, how did the two powers come
closer in the later parts of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? Elaborate. (20)
Q. No. 4. How did the American-Spanish War in 1898 raise the United States status as one of the
leading world powers? (20)
leading world powers? (20)
Q. No. 5. After the end of WWI (1914-1918), why the US President Woodrow Wilson failed to
convince the US Congress to become part of the League of the Nations despite his
longstanding efforts for the creation of this International Organization through the
prism of his Fourteen Points? (20)
convince the US Congress to become part of the League of the Nations despite his
longstanding efforts for the creation of this International Organization through the
prism of his Fourteen Points? (20)
Q. No. 6. In the wake of the WWII (1939-1945), two major powers the US and the Soviet Union
emerged constituting a bipolar system. Elaborate conceptually if the bipolar world
remained more peaceful and stable than the multi-polar word in the pre-World Wars
era. (20)
emerged constituting a bipolar system. Elaborate conceptually if the bipolar world
remained more peaceful and stable than the multi-polar word in the pre-World Wars
era. (20)
Q. No. 7. Since the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, why the
United States desires to further expand NATO? Elaborate opportunities and challenges
for the expansion of the NATO. (20)
United States desires to further expand NATO? Elaborate opportunities and challenges
for the expansion of the NATO. (20)
Q. No. 8. The tectonic plates of international politics seem to shift away from Europe to the AsiaPacific region, which the U.S. President Barak Obama had termed as a “pivot to Asia” or “rebalancing” strategy. In the light of changing geo-strategic environment, how
could you see the rise of China vis-à-vis the U.S. geo-strategic interests in the AsiaPacific region?
could you see the rise of China vis-à-vis the U.S. geo-strategic interests in the AsiaPacific region?
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Posted : August 24, 2026 8:41 am