HSC Modern History Exam questions 2002 13

Exams

Use Sources A and B and your own knowledge. Explain why soldiers’ and civilians’ attitudes to the war changed between 1914 and 1918. !

Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for an historian studying changing expectations of soldiers and civilians in British society between 1914 and 1921.

WWI2002

(a) Assess the importance of anti-communism in shaping the policies of the United States towards Indochina between 1954 and 1979. !

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(b) Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics used by soldiers in Vietnam between 1960 and 1975.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

(a) Assess the impact of the Nazi Party on German society up to and including 1933. !

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(b) Explain the nature and impact of Nazi propaganda, terror and repression on the Jewish community between 1933 and 1945.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

WWIUse Sources A (one or both), B and C and your own knowledge. Compare the differing experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. !

Assess how useful Source A (1) and Source D would be for an historian studying the ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 and what this event showed about soldiers’ attitudes to war.

2003

(a) Discuss the significance of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident in the growth of US intervention in Vietnam in the period 1954–1968. !

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(b) Assess the impact the spread of conflict from Vietnam had on Cambodia in the period up to 1979.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

(a) Discuss the impact of the Depression on democracy in Germany in the period up to 1934. !

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(b) Evaluate the success of the Nazi Party in transforming Germany into a Nazi society in the period 1933–1945.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Account for the different goals of the Big Three Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference. Use Sources A and B and your own knowledge to answer this question. !Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for an historian studying peacemaking during World War I.

WWI2004

(a) Evaluate the view that North Vietnam’s determination to spread communism in Indochina caused the failure of the Geneva Peace Agreement by the 1960s. OR (b) To what extent were the Vietcong responsible for the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam and the eventual defeat of the South Vietnamese forces in the period 1968–1975?

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

(a) Assess the view that the collapse of the Weimar Republic was primarily due to the appeal of Hitler and his Nazi Party. !

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(b) Evaluate the significance of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943 for the military defeat and collapse of Nazism in 1945.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

How significant was the Battle of the Somme in attempts to break the stalemate on the Western Front? !!Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for a historian studying the nature of trench warfare during World War I.

WWI 2005

(a) To what extent were anti-war movements responsible for the American decision to withdraw from Vietnam in 1973? !

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(b) Evaluate the view that US intervention was primarily responsible for the suffering of villagers in South Vietnam and Cambodia.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

(a) Assess the impact of conservative parties and elites on German politics in the period 1918–1934. !

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(b) Evaluate the view that Germany was a totalitarian society in the period 1933–1945.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Explain why US entry into World War I proved to be the most significant of the war’s turning points !

Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for an historian studying the impact of total war on the home fronts during World War I.

WWI 2006

Evaluate the view that an inability to separate nationalism from communism dominated US policy towards Indochina in the period 1954–1968. !

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Assess the significance of the 1968 Tet Offensive as part of North Vietnam’s strategy in achieving victory in the Second Indochina War.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Assess the importance of nationalism as a cause of the failure of democracy in Germany in the period 1918–1934. !

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To what extent was Hitler responsible for the development and implementation of Nazi racist policies in Germany in the period to 1939?

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

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a) Outline the main features in the background and rise to prominence of the twentieth-century personality you have studied. !

(b) To what extent does history present us with a balanced interpretation of this personality?

Personality 20th C

2007

To what extent was the failure of Ludendorff’s Offensive responsible for Allied victory and the German collapse? !

Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for a historian studying the changing attitudes of Allied and German soldiers to the war.

WWI

Explain how and why German social and cultural life changed in the period1923–1939. !

OR !

Assess the impact of Nazism on German foreign policy in the period 1933–1939.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

(a) Describe the role played by the personality you have studied in national AND/OR international history. !

(b) ‘Events shape people more than people shape events.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied?

Personality 20th C

Assess the consequences of the Vietnamese victory against the French for in the period 1954–1964. !

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To what extent was the rise to power of Pol Pot’s regime a consequence of the spread of the Vietnam War to Cambodia?

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Assess the impact of tactics using new weapons in attempts to break the stalemate on the Western Front. !

Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for a historian studying the variety of attitudes to the war on the home fronts and how they changed over time in Britain and Germany.

2008WWI

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Account for the successes and failures of democracy in Germany in the period 1918–1933. !

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To what extent can Nazism in power be seen as totalitarianism in the period 1933–1939?

Personality 20th C

Describe the personal background and the historical context of the personality you have studied. !

(b) ‘History is about winners.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied?

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

To what extent was US involvement responsible for the ongoing conflict in Indochina in the period 1954–1979? !

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Evaluate the view that the impact of war on civilians in Indochina was responsible for communist victory in the period 1968–1979.

Explain why there was a stalemate on the Western Front by the end of 1914. !

Assess how useful Sources C and D would be for a historian studying the impact of World War I on women’s lives and experiences in Britain.

2009WWI

To what extent did weaknesses in the Weimar Republic account for the growth and rise to power of the Nazi Party to 1933? !

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Assess the impact of Nazi propaganda, terror and repression on the German people from 1933 to 1939.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Outline the life of the personality you have studied. !

(b) ‘Individuals are products of their times.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied?

Personality 20th C

Assess the importance of the Geneva Peace Agreement to developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964. !

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To what extent were the anti-war movements in the United States responsible for communist victory in the Second Indochina War?

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

2010WWI

Outline how the experiences of trench warfare changed soldiers’ attitudes to the war over time. !

How useful would Sources E and F be for a historian studying the different goals of Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson in creating the Treaty of Versailles?

Assess the influence of the German army on the successes and failures of the Weimar Republic by 1933. !

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Evaluate Hitler’s role in the Nazi state between 1933 and 1939.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

a) Describe the life of the personality you have studied. !

b) ‘People are swept along by events. Some individuals use events to advantage.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied?

Personality 20th C

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics used by the opposing sides during the Second Indochina War. !

OR !

Account for the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Outline the strategies and tactics used to break the stalemate on the Western Front.

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How useful would Sources C and D be for a historian studying the strategies and tactics used to break the stalemate on the Western Front?

2011WWI

(a) The impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the Weimar Republic to 1929 was more significant than any other factor.

How accurate is this statement?

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(b) Account for the initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933–1934. 25

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

a) Provide a detailed description of THREE significant events in the life of the personality you have studied. (10)

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(b) Assess the contribution of the personality you have studied to their period of national and/or international history. (15)

Personality 20th C

Assess the importance of nationalism to the Vietnamese up to 1965.

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From 1965 the US implemented a policy of direct military involvement in Vietnam.

Evaluate the consequences of this policy.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Outline the variety of attitudes to the war and how they changed over time in Britain and Germany.

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How useful would Sources A and D be for a historian studying recruitment and propaganda in Britain and Germany?

2012WWI

Hitler came to power as a result of a lack of opposition. To what extent is this statement true?

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How successful was Nazi foreign policy in achieving its aims to September 1939?

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Describe THREE significant factors which resulted in the prominence of the personality you have studied.

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To what extent did the personality you have studied have a positive impact on his or her times?

Personality 20th C

Assess the significance for Indochina of the Vietnamese victory against the French in the period up to 1964.

OR

Account for the Communist victory in the Second Indochina War.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Outline reasons for the Allied victory and German collapse in 1918.

How useful would Sources E and F be for a  historian studying the impact of total war on civilians in Britain and Germany?

2013WWI

To what extent was the  Great Depression  responsible for the  collapse of  the Weimar Republic?

OR

Assess the impact of the Nazi state on social and cultural life in Germany in the period  1933 to 1939.

National Study: Germany 1918-1939

Describe  the  rise  to  prominence  of  the  personality  you  have  studied.

Evaluate  the  significance  of  the  personality  you  have  studied  to  his/her  period  of national  and/or  international  history.

Personality 20th C

Assess  the  significance  of  the  Tet  Offensive  in  bringing  about  victory  for  the North  Vietnamese  in  the  Second  Indochina  War.

OR

(b) Account  for  the  rise  to  power  of  the  Khmer  Rouge  in  CambodiaAssess  the  significance  of  the  Tet  Offensive  in  bringing  about  victory  for  the North  Vietnamese  in  the  Second  Indochina  War.

Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979