0470.3.6.01 — Did the Alliance System and global diplomacy make war more likely or less likely?.: past paper questions
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- 0470/11 · May/June 2026 · Q4a[4]
What was the Dual Alliance (1894)?
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‘In the period 1890 to 1914, colonial rivalries were more important than the arms race in increasing international tensions.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/11 · May/June 2026 · Q5a[4]
Describe how the Assembly of the League operated.
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · October/November 2025 · Q4b[6]
Why was the Alliance System important in the July crisis of 1914?
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · October/November 2025 · Q4c[10]
How far do you agree that Germany was responsible for raising international tensions in the years before 1914? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · October/November 2025 · Q4b[6]
Why did Britain and Japan form an alliance in 1902?
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · October/November 2025 · Q4c[10]
‘Germany was responsible for turning the July crisis of 1914 into a European war.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/11 · May/June 2025 · Q4c[10]
Which of Britain and Germany was the more responsible for the tensions between them in the years 1898–1914? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2025 · Q4a[4]
Describe what happened in the Second Moroccan Crisis.
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2025 · Q4b[6]
Why did Britain build dreadnoughts?
See it on the paper → - 0470/01 · Specimen 2024 · Q4a[4]
What was the Alliance System?
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2024 · Q2a[7]
Study Sources A and B. How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2024 · Q2d[8]
Study Sources F and G. How far does Source F support Marshall’s claims in Source G? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2024 · Q2e[9]
Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that the Marshall Plan was designed to protect the West from the threat of the Soviet Union? Use the sources to explain your answer.
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · February/March 2024 · Q4a[4]
Describe how Britain ended its policy of ‘splendid isolation’ in the years leading up to the First World War.
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · February/March 2024 · Q4c[10]
How far was Serbia responsible for the outbreak of the First World War? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · February/March 2024 · Q6a[4]
What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · February/March 2024 · Q7a[4]
What was Cominform?
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2023 · Q1[7]
How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources.
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2022 · Q4a[4]
What was the result of the Algeciras Conference of 1906?
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What examiners said
The strongest responses made four relevant points. These included: ‘It was signed in 1936’, ‘It was between Germany and Japan’, ‘It was an alliance against the Soviet Union’ and ‘It was antiCommunist’. Credit was also awarded for other countries who later signed the agreement, including Italy in 1937, and the fact that it became known as the Axis Alliance. Weaker responses largely knew that it was...
— Examiner report, February/March 2024, 0470/12 Q6(a) (Cambridge)
This question was well answered, and the majority of candidates were able to show that it was an organisation of communist countries in Europe set up by Stalin. Four relevant points were required, such as ‘It was the Communist Information Bureau’, ‘Countries such as Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia were members’, ‘It allowed Stalin to keep a close eye over communist countries’ and ‘It was set up in 194...
— Examiner report, February/March 2024, 0470/12 Q7(a) (Cambridge)
The essential point in answering questions that ask for sources to be compared is to match ‘like with like’; in effect, there has to be a common criterion on which the comparison is based. Some candidates struggled to do this on the two given sources. There were, though, several similarities, and many answers gave, for example, the idea that imperialism was about ‘civilising’, something explicit i...
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 0470/21 Q1 (Cambridge)
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