asian history question paper

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Totally four pages paper. Please answer two of the following, supporting your response with reference to the historical evidence.

1. What key developments account for the emergence of the US as a major Pacific power at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century?

2. Americas initial plans for a postwar order in East Asia did not work out. To what degree, and in what ways, did those plans nonetheless have a lasting impact on the region after 1945?

3. How, and how significantly, did US immigration policy shape its relations with East Asia prior to WWIl

4. What was the Open Door policy? To what degree did it define a special relationship between he US and China?

5. Despite its distance and its modest international posture in the mid-19t century, it was the US which forced open Japan both diplomatically and economically. Why and how did it do so?

6. What were the key elements of the Washington system? What were the forces primarily responsible for its unravelling?

7. Scholars have described US policy in East Asia as having been shaped by a treaty port constituency of merchants, missionaries, and diplomats. How and to what degree did each of these groups shape American policy toward Asia before 1898?

8. In 1931-2 and after 1937, US sympathies seem to have been with China, yet US willingness to tervene was nil. What forces constrained US actions in East Asia during the 1930s? What led to the relaxation of these constraints in the early 1940s?

9. How did American experience of East Asia between 1937 and 1945 shape American policy in the immediate postwar years?

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Running head: ASIAN HISTORY

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Asian history
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ASIAN HISTORY

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Q.3.
How, and how significantly, did US immigration policy shape its relations with East
Asia prior to WWII
The US immigration policy was a mandatory step in trying to control, the number of
foreigners moving to work and love in the United States (Hirota, 2017). Immigration is a very
significant and sensitive topic for the United States as it had been part of its history dating back
to independence. The East Asian region was among the places that enjoyed America’s open
immigration in the 1800s where America encouraged immigrants to come and settle in its empty
lands. This later changed when a few other countries passed immigration laws
The Chinese and other Asian nationals were able to move to America between the years
1900 to 1920. World War I reduced the grate on migration, but there were still a significant
number of movements after the war (Anderson & Anderson, 2013). Immediately after the war,
the US had to come up with a new immigration policy where the process of immigration as
controlled by assigning every nationality that moved to America a quota which later gave rise to
the US Border Patrol overseen by the immigration service.
The history of Asian origin population in the US dates back to the 16th century, but a
massive Asian migration was in the late 19th century. In 1875, the supreme court of America
passed a law that made immigration regulation a federal responsibility. East Asian immigrants
started settling in Hawaii before any other place. Most of them came...


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