0470.3.6.04 — How did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand lead to war?.: past paper questions
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- 0470/11 · May/June 2026 · Q4b[6]
Why did Austria respond aggressively to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
See it on the paper → - 0470/11 · October/November 2025 · Q4c[10]
How far do you agree that Austria was responsible for the outbreak of a general European war in 1914? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/12 · October/November 2025 · Q4a[4]
What happened in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914?
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2025 · Q4c[10]
‘During the crisis of June–July 1914, Germany was more of a threat to peace than Russia.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. Option B: The twentieth century
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2024 · Q1a[7]
How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources. [7]
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2024 · Q1b[8]
Does Source D mean that Sukhomlinov’s account (Source C) cannot be trusted? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge. [8]
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2024 · Q1c[8]
What is the message of the cartoonist? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge. [8]
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2023 · Q2[8]
Why was this source published on 12 March 1936? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2023 · Q5[8]
How far would these two cartoonists have agreed? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · May/June 2023 · Q6[12]
How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that appeasement was an error? Use the sources to explain your answer.
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2022 · Q6b[6]
Why was the Spanish Civil War important to Hitler?
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2022 · Q6c[10]
Which was more to blame for war breaking out in September 1939, Germany or Britain? Explain your answer.
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · February/March 2019 · Q2[8]
Study Source C. Why was this cartoon published on 31 July 1914? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
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What examiners said
Many responses would have been improved by contextual awareness of what the Kaiser’s purpose might have been in making his speech. Answers tended to be based firmly on the content or the provenance but some found it a challenge to pick a comprehensible message out of the source, candidates struggling to make sense of what the Kaiser was saying. The best of the answers used the provenance to infer...
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 0470/21 Q2 (Cambridge)
Most candidates were able to provide reasoning for finding the advertisement useful as evidence about imperialism. Although many responses just saw it as evidence of the way imperialism would improve the lives of all nations around the world, a good number moved beyond that to seeing the source as revealing attitudes of imperialists to people in other parts of the world. Being asked to compare two...
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 0470/21 Q5 (Cambridge)
Some responses appeared to be addressing a slightly different hypothesis – generally on whether or not imperialism was a good thing. The given hypothesis was on motives for imperialism, specifically on whether spreading ‘civilisation’ was the main reason for it, and better responses dealt with this aspect. Less successful answers had difficulty in using sources to illustrate the given motive, or t...
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 0470/21 Q6 (Cambridge)
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