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- 9489/11 · October/November 2024 · Q1a[15]
Read Source B and Source C. Compare and contrast these two sources as evidence about events in Haslingden in April 1826.
See it on the paper → - 9489/11 · October/November 2024 · Q1b[25]
Read all of the sources. How far do these sources show that working-class protest was a reaction against mechanisation? Section B: American option The Great Crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal policies, 1920–41
See it on the paper → - 9489/11 · October/November 2024 · Q2a[15]
Read Source B and Source D. To what extent do these two sources agree about the government’s management of the stock market crisis of 1929?
See it on the paper → - 9489/11 · October/November 2024 · Q2b[25]
Read all of the sources. ‘Speculation on the stock market caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929.’ How far do the sources support this view? Section C: International option The League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · October/November 2024 · Q6b[20]
‘The 19th Amendment was the most significant reform of the Progressive era.’ How far do you agree? Section C: International option International history, 1870–1945
See it on the paper → - 9489/22 · October/November 2024 · Q2a[10]
Explain why Bismarck wanted to be allied with Austria in the war against Denmark in 1864.
See it on the paper → - 9489/22 · October/November 2024 · Q2b[20]
To what extent did the Carlsbad Decrees limit the development of nationalism in Germany in the period from 1819 to 1848?
See it on the paper → - 9489/41 · October/November 2024 · Q2[30]
30-mark question — its maths and diagrams are best seen on the paper.
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · May/June 2024 · Q1[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Critics of Britain’s entente policy with France have claimed that London had all the obligations of an alliance and none of the advantages. They argue that frequent cooperation between the two partners created a moral commitment to provide support, if needed. But without a...
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · May/June 2024 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. ‘The final goal of our overall policy is clear to all of us,’ Hitler explained in a speech to Nazi Party regional directors on 29 April 1937 about how he intended to proceed against the Jews. ‘With me, the main thing is never to take a step that I may have to withdraw or t...
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · May/June 2024 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. For Stalin, the two ideas – world revolution and empire – did not contradict each other at all. What, after all, was the ideal of communists? A universal state with domination over the globe, a world without borders, in short, an unprecedented empire. Marxism was imperial...
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q2[30]
Assess the extent to which workers benefited from the economic changes in the USSR from 1924 to 41.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q3[30]
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Nazi regime’s responses to the Great Depression.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q4[30]
Assess the view that women’s roles and status did not change significantly in Britain in the period 1919–39. Section B: The USA, 1944–92
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q5[30]
Analyse the effectiveness of the NAACP in promoting civil rights in the late 1940s and 1950s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q6[30]
30-mark question — its maths and diagrams are best seen on the paper.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q7[30]
‘Too little, too late.’ Evaluate this view of the response of the US authorities to the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q8[30]
‘Kennedy’s policies towards Cuba were irresponsible.’ Discuss this view. Section C: International history, 1945–92
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · May/June 2024 · Q9[30]
Assess the impact of the death of Stalin on US–Soviet relations.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2024 · Q1[30]
Analyse the effectiveness of Mussolini’s policies on women and young people.
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What examiners said
Explain why the New Economic Policy was introduced in 1921. Effective responses were characterised by the identification and explanation of several key factors (failings of War Communism/Kronstadt revolt/need to maintain power). A number of these responses would have benefitted by explaining the connections between the factors to provide a reasoned conclusion. Responses which were less successful...
— Examiner report, May/June 2021, 9489/21 Q3(a) (Cambridge)
‘Failure to achieve peace caused the fall of the Provisional Government in October 1917.’ How far do you agree? The strongest responses were characterised by the development of fully focused and balanced arguments, supported by appropriate and accurate factual evidence. The inherent limitations and weaknesses of the Provisional Government, and the magnitude of the problems which confronted it, we...
— Examiner report, May/June 2021, 9489/21 Q3(b) (Cambridge)
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