Tariffs and Trade (GATT): past paper questions
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- 9489/31 · May/June 2026 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. The purpose of National Socialism was to impose a new political, economic and social order on the German Reich, and ultimately on the entire European continent – and all within a very short space of time. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. The size and composit...
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · May/June 2026 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. The confrontation in Berlin was not simply an episode in the early Cold War, it was when the conflict assumed its final shape. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. ‘Not necessarily’, responded Acheson, but the task would be ‘to see who develops the most strength’...
See it on the paper → - 9489/33 · October/November 2025 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Second World War propaganda regarding the Soviet Union, combined with relief at the end of the war, left the United States in 1945 reluctant to lead a crusade against Soviet imperialism and very willing to work for the continuance of US-Soviet cooperation. When in March 19...
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · May/June 2025 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. The Potsdam Conference should have been a time of celebration. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. Yet not for a long time, not for a dozen years, would Truman concede that he had been naïve at Potsdam – ‘an innocent idealist’ in his own words, dealing with an u...
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · May/June 2025 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. The inevitable result of the acquisition of territory, particularly in the east where Hitler’s ambitions lay, was that it brought more ‘racial inferiors’ and Jews with it. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. The corporate sense of superiority these unlikely rule...
See it on the paper → - 9489/42 · February/March 2025 · Q2[30]
Discuss the view that Stalin had no consistent foreign policy in the years 1928 to 1941.
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · October/November 2024 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Opinion polls showed consistently huge majorities against refugee immigration, indicating that something more than simple apathy underlay the American public’s attitudes towards Jewish refugees. Public hostility towards increasing quotas was rooted firmly in social and eco...
See it on the paper → - 9489/31 · October/November 2024 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Truman had postponed the Big Three meeting in order to have his new weapon, the atomic bomb, ready when he left for Potsdam. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. Unlike Churchill and Attlee, Truman had not come to Potsdam to make deals with the Soviets. What can...
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · October/November 2024 · Q1[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Leaders in Berlin faced a hard choice in the summer of 1914. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. A week later, he expressed his delight to the Crown Prince that Germany could take part in the approaching crisis as Austria’s supporter, rather than as the primary...
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · October/November 2024 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. How could it have happened? The motivation was ideological. The racist anti‑Semitic ideology was a variation of the Christian anti‑Semitic ideology that had affected Christian–Jewish relations through their two thousand years of coexistence. Nazi anti‑Semitism was pure ide...
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · October/November 2024 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Truman’s attitude towards the Polish issue was a mixture of many elements. In terms of domestic politics, there were millions of Americans of east European heritage, along with countless Catholic voters, who were enraged by Soviet actions, and Truman had to take their view...
See it on the paper → - 9489/33 · May/June 2024 · Q3[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. After 1943 there were three major themes which comprised most of the concerns of those in Washington who thought about the problems of American peace aims. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. At the same time the United States defined for its own purposes the pr...
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2024 · Q3[30]
Analyse the reasons for the Nazi persecution of Jews and other minorities.
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · May/June 2023 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. There is an increasing readiness amongst scholars to accept that no single decision brought about the ‘Final Solution’. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. However falteringly at first, decisive steps were taken at the centre to coordinate measures for total ext...
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2023 · Q2[30]
‘Stalin’s policies towards women and children improved their lives.’ Discuss.
See it on the paper → - 9489/43 · May/June 2023 · Q3[30]
Analyse the view that Hitler’s consolidation of power in 1933–34 was a ‘legal revolution’.
See it on the paper → - 9489/33 · October/November 2022 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Hitler’s hand appears only rarely in the actual making of Jewish policy between 1933 and 1938. One can only conclude from this that he occupied his time with more important concerns. In part the shifts and inconsistencies of Jewish policy during the first five years of Naz...
See it on the paper → - 9489/41 · October/November 2022 · Q3[30]
Analyse the effectiveness of Nazi economic policy in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression.
See it on the paper → - 9489/41 · October/November 2022 · Q10[30]
Analyse how far the issue of Taiwan affected Sino–US relations during the Cold War.
See it on the paper → - 9489/32 · May/June 2022 · Q2[40]
Read the extract and then answer the question. Structuralists stress the improvised and reactive nature of decision-making, and the importance of essentially local initiatives albeit operating with approval from above, or in other words the ways in which lesser figures worked their way towards the Führer. This of cour...
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What examiners said
Discuss the view that Stalin had no consistent foreign policy between 1928 and 1941. Relatively few responses were seen to this question, but those that tackled it did so with confidence and grasped its demands. Starting with an assessment of Stalin’s aims in foreign policy was a successful approach and allowed candidates to explore whether those aims remained consistent and whether it was simply...
— Examiner report, February/March 2025, 9489/42 Q2 (Cambridge)
Explain why the League of Nations was involved in Eastern Europe in the 1920s. The strongest answers linked the Treaty of Versailles to why the League needed to get involved in Eastern Europe – border disputes, refugees, financial crises, etc. Some weaker answers did not focus on Eastern Europe, instead describing what the League did generally in the 1920s, with only parts of the response being r...
— Examiner report, October/November 2021, 9489/23 Q8(a) (Cambridge)
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