History Paper 2 June 2025

1. Aa labourer who carried stone to the pyramid sites
2. Ba peasant who dug out canals after the flood
3. Ca scribe who kept the records of the state
4. Da servant who fetched water for a rich household

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe pharaoh ruled as a god and his word was law
2. Bthe nobles could overrule the pharaoh's decisions
3. Cthe people elected their pharaoh every seven years
4. Dthe priests were chosen by a vote of the peasants

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1. Athe collapse of every European bank after 1800
2. Bthe failure of sugar to sell anywhere in Europe
3. Cthe return of Europe to farming instead of trade
4. Dthe rise of factory industry needing free labour

1. Areligious groups such as the Quakers and evangelicals
2. Bthe West India planters and their agents in London
3. Cthe officers of the Royal Navy in the Caribbean
4. Dthe merchants who owned the slave ships at Liverpool

1. Alarge numbers of settlers returning home with wealth
2. Bprotection from attack by other European powers
3. Ccheap raw materials and markets for their goods
4. Dthe right to vote in the colonies' own assemblies

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ahanded Bosnia to Serbia against the wishes of Russia
2. Bannexed Bosnia without consulting the other powers
3. Cwithdrew her troops from Bosnia and left it to Turkey
4. Dasked Turkey to take back the government of Bosnia

1. ABelgium
2. BBulgaria
3. CGermany
4. DTurkey

1. Await behind the Rhine until France attacked
2. Battack Russia first and turn on France afterwards
3. Cland an army on the south coast of England first
4. Dmarch through Belgium to reach Paris from the north

1. AItaly entered the war on the side of France in 1914
2. Bthe German navy was destroyed in the English Channel
3. Cthe Belgians held it up and Russia mobilised quickly
4. DGermany's generals refused to march through Belgium

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1. Athe French demand for security against Germany
2. Bthe refusal of Britain to take part in the peace talks
3. Cthe desire of the United States to annex German land
4. Dthe wish of the Allies to bring Germany into the talks

1. Aevery African colony was granted its independence
2. BGerman colonies were handed to other European powers
3. Cthe mandates were placed under African governments
4. DAfrican states were given seats in the peace conference

1. Apeoples should choose the government they live under
2. Bevery state should keep the borders it had in 1914
3. Cthe Allies should divide up Germany's land
4. Dsmall states should be governed by the great powers

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1. Athe Covenant forbade any discussion of disarmament
2. Bevery member had already disarmed before 1920
3. Cthe great powers were not members of the League
4. Dno state would disarm while its neighbours did not

1. Aimport most of Italy's food from abroad
2. Bend all farming in the south of Italy
3. Cgive every peasant a farm of his own
4. Dmake Italy self-sufficient in wheat

1. Athe sale of Italian farmland to foreign companies
2. Bthe ending of all tariffs on imported foodstuffs
3. Cthe draining of marshland for farms and villages
4. Dthe breaking up of the great estates of the south

1. Akeep politics out of the classroom altogether
2. Ballow teachers to write their own textbooks freely
3. Cteach obedience to the leader and pride in Rome
4. Dprepare pupils for elections and party debate

1. Athey had been given control of the German government
2. BNazi racial theory blamed them for Germany's troubles
3. Cthe Treaty of Versailles required Germany to expel them
4. Dthey made up the largest religious group in Germany

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1. Athey gave the Reichstag power over the whole army
2. Bno party won a majority, so governments were unstable
3. Cthey refused to allow more than one party to exist
4. Dthey governed without ever holding a general election

1. AMahatma Gandhi
2. BWinston Churchill
3. CWoodrow Wilson
4. DFranklin Roosevelt

1. Athe success of the League in disarming the great powers
2. Bthe alliance signed between Britain and Germany in 1936
3. Cthe refusal of Germany to rearm after 1933
4. Dthe failure of the League of Nations to stop aggression

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. ASwitzerland
2. BFrance
3. CSpain
4. DSweden

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1. ASoviet industry had all been destroyed before 1941
2. BGermany attacked in the middle of December 1941
3. Cher troops were not equipped for the Russian winter
4. Dthe Soviet Union had far fewer soldiers than Germany

1. ANorway
2. BSpain
3. CWest Germany
4. DGreece

1. Athe Marshall Plan of aid to Western Europe
2. Bthe withdrawal of all American troops from Europe
3. Cthe recognition of communist China as an ally
4. Dthe sale of atomic weapons to the Soviet Union

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ajoin the European Union as a regional bloc
2. Bend all trade between members and the outside world
3. Ccreate a single army for the whole of Africa
4. Dreduce the region's dependence on South Africa

1. Ano member state has a currency of its own to trade with
2. Bmembers produce similar goods and trade little together
3. Cmembers are forbidden by treaty to export raw materials
4. Dthe region has no ports through which to send its goods

1. Ait has never written human rights into any of its treaties
2. Bit refuses to send observers to any member's elections
3. Cit suspended its Tribunal after a ruling against a member
4. Dit expelled the states that had signed human rights treaties