AS & A Level History 9489 · History · 1.30

Spanish–American War (1898): past paper questions

6 real questionsasked in 3 of the last 10 exam series2022–2025usually: Explain

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9489/22 · October/November 2025 · Q5a[10]
Explain why the movement for female emancipation remained split throughout the late nineteenth century.
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9489/11 · May/June 2024 · Q2b[25]
Read all of the sources. ‘The Depression in the United States was caused by international factors.’ How far do the sources support this view? Section C: International option The League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s
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9489/12 · October/November 2023 · Q3b[25]
Read all of the sources. How far do these sources support the view that US intervention in Cuba was provoked by Spanish actions?
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9489/21 · October/November 2023 · Q6a[10]
Explain why many on the liberal left opposed the New Deal.
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9489/21 · October/November 2022 · Q6a[10]
Explain why unemployment had such a large social impact after 1929.
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9489/21 · October/November 2022 · Q7a[10]
Explain why the United States became involved in the Cuban War of Independence.
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9489/21 · October/November 2022 · Q7b[20]
‘Trade was the main reason for international involvement in China in the late nineteenth century.’ How far do you agree?
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How far do these sources support the view that US intervention in Cuba was provoked by Spanish actions? Most responses engaged with the sources thoughtfully to offer support and challenge for the assertion that US intervention was provoked by Spanish actions. Source A was well used as a support source and together with the ‘horrible miseries’ referred to in Source C, the provocations of Spanish m...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/12 Q3(b) (Cambridge)

Explain why many on the liberal left opposed the New Deal. Successful responses were able to provide accurate examples of those on the liberal left who opposed the New Deal and clearly explain the reasons for this opposition. Less successful responses identified either a reason or reasons. The weaker responses showed confusion over the ‘liberal left’ and attributed views to them which were antith...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/21 Q6(a) (Cambridge)

Explain why unemployment had such a large social impact after 1929. The key to a good answer was to grasp the question’s focus of ‘social impact after 1929’. Such answers identified and explained several factors (e.g. Hoovervilles/growth in crime/health issues). Other responses explained a factor and less successful answers identified a factor/s. The weakest answers wrote at length about the caus...
— Examiner report, October/November 2022, 9489/21 Q6(a) (Cambridge)

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1.30 Spanish–American War (1898)

Reasons for, and impact of, the USA’s entry into the First World War The League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s Key questions Content Why was there dissatisfaction with the peace • Key terms and implications of the peace settlements of 1919–20? treaties (Versailles, Trianon, Neuilly, Saint Germain, Sèvres).
Reparations.
Reactions of victors and defeated powers, e.g. Germany’s ‘Diktat’.
Problems in ‘successor states’ created by the post-war settlements How and why did international tensions remain high • Crises and tensions, e.g. the Ruhr Crisis; Corfu in the period between 1920 and 1923? Incident; German hyperinflation.
Aims and impact of international treaties and conferences: Washington Conference (1921–22); Genoa Conference (1922); Rapallo Pact (1922); Treaty of Lausanne (1923);.
Changing relations between the major powers:.

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