Paper 2 (May 2009)
Topic 1 Causes, practices, and effects of war
1. Compare and contrast the causes of two twentieth century civil wars.
2. Define guerrilla warfare, and discuss its significance in two wars, each chosen from a different region.
3. Analyse (a) the short-term results, and (b) the long-term results up to 1935, of the First World War.
4. In what ways, and with what results, did either the Korean War or the Vietnam War bring about social and cultural changes in the countries involved.
5. In what ways, and for what reasons, did the nature of war in the air change between 1939 and 1990.
Topic 3 The rise and rule of single-party states
11. Analyse the methods used by either Castro or Peron to obtain power.
12. "The aims and policies of single-party state rulers rarely followed their declared ideology." To what extent do you agree with this assertion?
13. Evaluate the domestic policies of either Hitler or Nasser.
14. For what reasons, and with what success, did rulers of single-party states use foreign policy to maintain their power? At least two rulers should be considered.
15. In what ways did two rulers of single-party states, each chosen from a different region, (a) use, and (b) misuse, the arts and education?
Topic 5 The Cold War
21. For what reasons, and with what results, were there disagreements between participants at the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam in 1945?
22. Define and analyse the importance of two of the following: (a) the formation of NATO (b) the Warsaw Pact (c) non-alignment (d) detente
23. Examine the role and importance of fear and suspicion in the development of the Cold War between 1953 and 1975.
24. In what ways were social and gender issues affected by the Cold War in two countries, each chosen from a different region?
25. Why did the Cold War spread from Europe to other parts of the world after 1950?