Economic Policy (NEP): past paper questions
Real questions on economic policy (nep)
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- 9489/41 · May/June 2025 · Q6[30]
Assess the political importance of the Watergate affair in the 1970s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2025 · Q2[30]
‘Stalin’s concern for the security of the Soviet Union was the main cause of the Great Terror.’ Assess this view.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2024 · Q8a[10]
Explain why the Soviet Union was a member of the League of Nations only from 1934 until 1939.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2024 · Q2[30]
Assess the reasons for Stalin’s policy of ‘building socialism in one country’.
See it on the paper → - 9489/12 · October/November 2023 · Q2a[15]
Read Sources A and C. Compare and contrast the views in these two sources as evidence about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
See it on the paper → - 9489/12 · October/November 2023 · Q2b[25]
Read all of the sources. ‘Americans were positive about immigration.’ How far do these sources support this view? Section C: International option Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870–1919
See it on the paper → - 9489/12 · October/November 2023 · Q3a[15]
Read Sources B and C. Compare and contrast these two sources as evidence about the sinking of the Maine.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2023 · Q5[30]
Analyse why women experienced social and economic inequality in the late 1940s and 1950s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2023 · Q6[30]
Assess the impact of the Vietnam War on party politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2023 · Q7[30]
Assess the political importance of the Iran–Contra Affair.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2023 · Q8[30]
‘The US was responsible for the onset of the Second Cold War.’ Discuss. Section C: International history, 1945–92
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2023 · Q10[30]
Assess the extent to which the policy of containment was the reason for the United States’ growing involvement in Vietnam.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2023 · Q7a[10]
Explain why the successor states of eastern Europe faced political problems in the 1920s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/41 · May/June 2023 · Q2[30]
‘Stalin’s main aim in foreign policy was to defend the Soviet Union from attack.’ Discuss.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2023 · Q10[30]
Discuss the extent to which ideological differences affected Sino-Soviet relations in the period 1949–69.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · October/November 2022 · Q2[30]
Assess how far the economic conditions of workers improved in the Soviet Union in the period 1928–41.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · October/November 2022 · Q12[30]
‘Saddam Hussain’s hostility towards the Iranian Revolution was the main cause of the Iran–Iraq War.’ Assess this view.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2022 · Q2[30]
Assess the aims of Soviet foreign policy in the period 1924–41.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2022 · Q2[30]
‘Stalin came to power because Lenin failed to plan for his succession.’ Assess this view.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · October/November 2021 · Q1[30]
Assess the extent to which Fascist indoctrination was the main aim of Mussolini’s leadership.
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What examiners said
Compare and contrast the views in these two sources as evidence about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Most responses dealt with this question very well and could clearly draw similarities and differences between the two sources. Some responses added a paragraph of contextual knowledge, or a discussion of the provenance and reliability, which did not serve the needs of the question. Contextual...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/12 Q2(a) (Cambridge)
Americans were positive about immigration.’ How far do these sources support this view? Most responses made effective use of the sources to support and challenge the idea that Americans were positive about immigration. Source A was argued as a challenge source, with most candidates identifying hostile language with the references to ‘the unemployable’, ‘the undesirable’ and the ‘dumping ground’....
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/12 Q2(b) (Cambridge)
Compare and contrast these two sources as evidence about the sinking of the Maine. This question required candidates to compare evidence about the sinking of the Maine in Havana Harbour in February 1898. Most candidates were able to recognise both similarities and differences in the sources as detailed in the mark scheme. Many answers identified that the cause was an explosion, ‘It was some form...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/12 Q3(a) (Cambridge)
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