北京外国语大学美国社会文化与研究试卷.doc

北京外国语大学美国社会文化与研究试卷 1998 1．Why was the formulation and the passage of the Bill or Rights taken up as the first thing when Congress met after the ratification of the Constitution? 2．What was judicial review? Who initiated this practice under what circumstance? 3．What are the serious consequences of the Vietnam War for the United States? 4．In the late 19th century, there was a strong and widespread anti-Chinese movement in the United States. What were the causes of this anti-Chinese movement? What role did the Chinese play in the development of the United States? 5．What is Nixon Doctrine? What is the background for the doctrine? 6．What were the three essential tools of the frontiersmen when they were moving west? Please explain why? 7．What do the values of individualism, freedom, and democracy mean to Americans? 8．Why do you think the Americans are often called the hyphenated Americans? 1999 Answer the following questions briefly and to the point 1. What was Reagan’s policy towards the Soviet Union in his first term? What measures did he take? 2. What was the Supreme Court decision on “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka”? What is the significance of the decision? 3. Why did the Roosevelt Administration initiate the “Good Neighbor Policy” towards Latin America in the 1930s? What was the major content of the policy? 4. What are the major elements in the Great Society as proposed by President Johnson? 5. What is the cultural implication of “Manifest Destiny”? 6. What is the significance of Andrew Jackson being elected as President of the United States? 7. What is the “Protestant ethic”? How did it influence the emergence of capitalism? 8. Why do you think it took the Americans so long to accept the fact that there are classes in the U.S.? 2000 1. What was the nature of the conflict between Jefferson and Hamilton? 2. Why did Wilson take the United States into the First World War? 3. Under what circumstances was the Lend-Lease designed? For what pur