History Paper 2 June 2023

1. Afix the price of grain sold in the market
2. Bcount the ships that traded with the land of Punt
3. Cdecide which of the priests should be chosen
4. Dmeasure the fields again after the Nile flood

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. A365 days
2. B400 days
3. C300 days
4. D354 days

1. ABritain
2. BFrance
3. Cthe Netherlands
4. DPortugal

1. AAfrican societies gave up their traditional religions
2. Braids and kidnapping broke up families and villages
3. CAfrican families were given free schooling by traders
4. Dthe population of West Africa rose sharply in this period

1. AEuropean governors were appointed to rule every village
2. BAfrican kings were made to sign the Berlin Act of 1885
3. Crulers who sold captives came to depend on European guns
4. Dtraditional courts were replaced by European law courts

1. Athe United States demanded that she join an alliance
2. BGermany's naval building threatened her control of the sea
3. Cshe had lost all her colonies in Africa to France
4. Dher army had been defeated by Russian troops in the Balkans

1. AFrance
2. BItaly
3. CRussia
4. DTurkey

1. ARussia
2. BSerbia
3. CItaly
4. DJapan

1. AFrance and Germany quarrelled twice over Morocco
2. BBritain and France went to war over the Sudan
3. CGermany seized the Congo from Belgium by force
4. DItaly took Egypt from the British in North Africa

1. Adefeat France quickly before turning against Russia
2. Bseize the oilfields of the Middle East from Turkey
3. Ccapture the Suez Canal from the British in Egypt
4. Ddestroy the British battle fleet in the North Sea

1. Adepended on the Italian army holding the Alps
2. Bassumed Russia would take six weeks to mobilise
3. Cleft the German army with no railways to use
4. Drequired Germany to attack Britain at sea first

1. Aforcing Turkey to surrender at the Dardanelles
2. Bbringing fresh troops, money and supplies to Europe
3. Copening a new front against Austria in the Balkans
4. Dpersuading Russia to stay in the war until 1919

1. ABosnia, which went to Yugoslavia
2. BPosen, which was given to Poland
3. CEupen, which was given to Belgium
4. DAlsace, which went back to France

1. Awas allowed to keep her empire in Europe
2. Bwas given the island of Cyprus by Britain
3. Cgained new land along the Black Sea coast
4. Dlost her Arab lands to Britain and France

1. Alost her outlet to the Aegean Sea
2. Bwas broken up into three small states
3. Cwas placed under the rule of Yugoslavia
4. Dhad to give up her whole army and navy

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. ABritain and France were expelled in 1935
2. Bthe United States never became a member
3. Cit had no headquarters building of its own
4. Dit held far too many meetings each year

1. Awere taken by the Secretary General alone
2. Bhad to be agreed to by every member present
3. Cneeded the approval of the World Court first
4. Dcould only be reviewed once every ten years

1. Athe Bolshevik Party
2. Bthe Kuomintang
3. Cthe Nazi Party
4. Dthe Socialist Party

1. AEgypt
2. BMadagascar
3. CAbyssinia
4. DAlbania

1. AMunich Agreement
2. BRome-Berlin Axis
3. CDawes Plan
4. DLocarno Pact

1. Athe closing of all German schools and universities
2. Ba shortage of workers caused by very high wages
3. Ca rapid rise in the number of wealthy landowners in the east
4. Dthe many wounded ex-soldiers and war widows to support

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe banning of all political parties by the law
2. Bthe absence of any written constitution at all
3. Ccoalition governments that fell one after another
4. Dthe refusal of Germans to take part in elections

1. ACanada
2. BGreece
3. CJapan
4. DBelgium

1. AAustria by force of arms if necessary
2. BDanzig and the corridor from Poland
3. Cthe Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
4. Dthe Rhineland province back from France

1. ABurma
2. BIndo-China
3. CKorea
4. DManchuria

1. ASweden
2. BSwitzerland
3. CFrance
4. DSpain

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe end of the fighting in Europe
2. Bthe surrender of the Japanese navy
3. Cthe United States entering the war
4. Dthe fall of France to the Germans

1. APoland
2. BBelgium
3. CDenmark
4. DNorway

1. Amillions of refugees left without any home
2. Ba sharp fall in the number of women at work
3. Ca rapid rise in Europe's population by 1945
4. Dan end to all fighting in Asia and in Africa

1. Asupplying weapons and troops to the Allies
2. Bpersuading Italy to change sides in 1940
3. Cinvading Germany from the east in 1944
4. Dkeeping the Suez Canal open for Britain

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Apaying the salaries of each member state's civil servants
2. Bbuying the whole maize crop grown by its members
3. Cprinting a single bank note used by all its members
4. Dfunding roads, railways and power lines across borders

1. ASADC help in mediating her political disputes
2. BSADC drafting of her constitution in 2013
3. CSADC control of her parliamentary elections
4. DSADC appointment of her cabinet ministers

1. Acreate one African army under Egyptian command
2. Bmake English the official language of Africa
3. Cjoin the African states to the European Community
4. Dfree the continent from all forms of colonial rule

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ait had no charter to guide its economic work
2. Bmember states were poor and paid their dues late
3. Cthe United Nations forbade it to trade abroad
4. Dit refused to admit any newly independent state

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Agave small and new states a voice in world affairs
2. Bbuilt a standing army drawn from all its members
3. Ccreated a single currency used by all its members
4. Dbrought the Cold War to an end by force of arms

1. Aa chairman appointed for it by the United Nations
2. Bits headquarters inside the Soviet Union
3. Cno permanent secretariat and no regular funds
4. Donly three member states as late as 1970

1. AIndonesia
2. BJapan
3. CBrazil
4. DIndia

1. Achoosing the head of state of each member country
2. Barranging meetings and carrying out members' decisions
3. Ccollecting the import duties charged on members' trade
4. Dcommanding a joint army drawn from the members

1. Abuying shares in their state owned companies
2. Bpaying off the debts they owe to world banks
3. Csending experts and training their own people
4. Dlending them money to build up their armies

1. ATsar Nicholas II
2. BAlexander Kerensky
3. CGrigori Rasputin
4. DLeon Trotsky

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ahis long service as a judge in the Petrograd courts
2. Bhis leadership and the promise of peace, land and bread
3. Chis command of the Russian armies at the war front
4. Dhis friendship with the family of Tsar Nicholas II at court

1. AJapan
2. BPortugal
3. CSpain
4. DSweden

1. Aheavy taxes and rents took most of their crop
2. Bthey were forbidden by law to grow any rice
3. Cthe government moved them all into the towns
4. Dforeign traders had bought up all their land

Answer this when you sit the paper.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aselling her sugar estates to the USA
2. Bjoining the European Common Market
3. Copening the island to foreign tourists
4. Dclosing every state owned farm at once

1. AKenya
2. BNigeria
3. CAngola
4. DEgypt

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aincrease Russia's trade with the United States
2. Breturn the land to the peasants who farmed it
3. Chand the running of factories to their workers
4. Dbuild up heavy industry as quickly as possible

1. Ahanded power back to the Bolshevik party
2. Bremoved many of her ablest army officers
3. Cgave the peasants control of all the land
4. Dclosed down the new factories in the east

1. Abarred from holding office in the Communist Party
2. Bkept out of factory work by a new labour law
3. Crequired to leave the towns for the countryside
4. Dgiven equal rights with men in law and at work

1. Aborrow money from the World Bank for factories
2. Braise farm and steel output at the same time
3. Copen China to trade with the United States
4. Dreturn farmland to its former private owners

1. Areplacing the Chinese language with Russian
2. Bsending all Chinese children to schools abroad
3. Cteaching millions of peasants to read and write
4. Dmaking the universities free for foreign students