EIU, Newton Key, His 1500, Paper 2, due 1 Nov. 2005 (4-5 pp., double-spaced, 12 pt font, 10%) Compare and contrast the discussion of the Suez Crisis or the Hungary Crisis of 1956 using at least three of the world history textbooks on reserve (use index of each). Usually, each text will devote only a paragraph or two on each. What themes do they emphasize? What players/actors? Are their similarities or differences in the facts, dates, causes, and outcomes that the texts emphasize.

Then, using information in the texts, your own text, and at least one of the monographs (detailed studies) of either Suez or Hungary, use one of the “isms” from the nineteenth century (nationalism, industrialism, militarism, conservativism, liberalism, communism, imperialism) to show how that idea/subject is played out in 1956. Be sure to give examples. Be very brief but specific (both as to your argument and upon what reasoning it is based) in your introduction and conclusion.


The following textbooks are on reserve for this course His 1500.008, Newton Key at Booth Library Reserve desk (3-hour in-library use):


The following are on Reserve (Booth Library, Reserve Desk), 3 hour & overnight. While it is not required that you use these, the assignment asks you to suggest how using industrialism, imperialism, nationalism, communism, etc., as your main theme would change the story in World History textbooks of Suez or Hungary in 1956. So an additional fact from one of these (or from the web; be sure to cite your full URL) might help make your case:


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