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Why was there a crisis over Manchuria in the early 1930s?
See it on the paper →‘The League was more effective in its humanitarian work than in dealing with international disputes.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.
See it on the paper →Why did the League fail to introduce sanctions when Japan invaded Manchuria?
See it on the paper →Why were the failures of the League of Nations in the 1930s important?
See it on the paper →Study Source C. What is the cartoonist’s message? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper →Study Sources D and E. How far does Source D make Source E surprising? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper →Study Source F. How useful is this source to a historian studying the Hoare–Laval Pact? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper →‘The League’s lack of an army was the main reason why it failed to take effective action over Manchuria.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.
See it on the paper →Study Source F. Why was this cartoon published at that time? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper →Study Source G. Do you believe Hoare? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper →Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that Britain and France were equally to blame for the League doing little about the Italian invasion of Abyssinia? Use the sources to explain your answer.
See it on the paper →Candidates who thought the cartoon was commenting on an invasion of Abyssinia that had already occurred were very likely to give an invalid reason for its publication. In fact, the cartoon was predicting the likely consequences of failing to stand firm against Mussolini’s increasingly aggressive approach towards the Abyssinian issue. With this kind of question, possible reasons for publication cou...
— Examiner report, October/November 2021, 0470/22 Q4 (Cambridge)
To answer this question effectively candidates needed to make clear exactly what in the source it was that they believed or disbelieved. This was sometimes missed and replaced with a general belief or disbelief of the source as a whole, making it difficult to know what any ensuing explanations applied to. This was particularly the case as the source contained many different claims. The most straig...
— Examiner report, October/November 2021, 0470/22 Q5 (Cambridge)
In this question, candidates are given a hypothesis, and have to check it against the evidence offered by the sources. Many candidates did this well. Another feature of this question is that the sources will always offer opportunities both to confirm and to question the hypothesis; it was noticeable how many candidates answered just on one side of the hypothesis, generally to agree that Britain an...
— Examiner report, October/November 2021, 0470/22 Q6 (Cambridge)
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