History Paper 2 November 2022

1. Aguns, gunpowder, cotton cloth and glass beads
2. Bgold coins minted in the capitals of Europe
3. Csugar and rum grown on plantations in Africa
4. Divory and copper bought from traders in Asia

1. Athe planters of the Caribbean had themselves closed down their sugar estates
2. BBritain had lost every Caribbean colony it held in the wars with France
3. Cindustrialists wanted Africa as a market for their goods, not as a source of labour
4. Dthe Royal Navy no longer had enough ships to escort the slave ships across the Atlantic

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. ATsar Nicholas II of Russia, shot during a state visit to Serbia
2. BArchduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
3. CKing Peter of Serbia, shot by an Austrian officer in Belgrade
4. DKaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, shot while on a visit to Bosnia

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe alliance systems, the arms race and Balkan rivalry were already in place
2. Bfour years passed between the shooting and the fighting in Europe
3. Cno Austrian soldier was sent into Serbian territory in the months after the shooting
4. DAustria-Hungary and Serbia settled their quarrel without any fighting

1. Athe Battle of Stalingrad
2. Bthe Battle of El Alamein
3. Cthe Battle of Waterloo
4. Dthe Battle of the Somme

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aa war fought almost entirely at sea rather than on the land of France
2. Ban agreement between the two sides to stop the fighting until 1918
3. Ca stalemate in which neither side could break the other's line for years
4. Da swift advance that carried the German army into Paris within weeks

1. Aevery European state agreed to be governed by one elected parliament
2. BBritain and France gave up all the colonies they held before the war
3. Cthe German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires collapsed
4. Dthe map of Europe was left exactly as it had been drawn in 1914

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1. Aa fall in taxes and a quick return to the living standards of 1913
2. Bfull employment right across the continent throughout the 1920s
3. Cheavy war debt, rising prices and millions of dead and disabled men
4. Dthe ending of food rationing within a month of the fighting stopping

1. Athe Treaty of Sevres
2. Bthe Treaty of Versailles
3. Cthe Treaty of Trianon
4. Dthe Treaty of Neuilly

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Awas excused all payment to the states whose land its armies had ruined
2. Bwas limited to an army of 100 000 men, with no tanks and no air force
3. Cwas allowed to build a navy of any size that it could afford to pay for
4. Dwas invited to join the League of Nations as a founder member in 1920

1. Apersuaded Germany to give up the rearmament Hitler began in 1933
2. Bsettled the quarrel between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands
3. Cforced Japan to take its troops back out of Manchuria after 1931
4. Dstopped Italy from conquering Abyssinia in the war of 1935 to 1936

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Acollect the reparations that Germany owed under the Versailles treaty
2. Bgovern the former German colonies taken away at the peace conference
3. Craise an army from the member states and send it against an aggressor
4. Dhear legal disputes between states and give rulings and legal opinions

1. Aplaced under the control of the Communist Party of Germany
2. Bmerged into one single union answering to the Catholic Church
3. Cleft free to bargain with employers just as they had done before
4. Ddissolved, and replaced by the Nazi-run German Labour Front

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1. Acut unemployment sharply through rearmament and public works
2. Bheld free elections in which several parties stood every four years
3. Cgave the trade unions the right to strike whenever wages were cut
4. Dleft the press free to criticise the government's economic policy

1. Aa Communist rising that put him at the head of the Italian workers
2. Bthe army removing the King and declaring him president of Italy
3. Cwinning an outright majority of the seats at a general election
4. Dthe March on Rome, when the King asked him to form a government

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe invasion of Poland, begun in September 1939
2. Bthe attack on Pearl Harbour, made in December 1941
3. Cthe reoccupation of the Rhineland, made in March 1936
4. Dthe invasion of Abyssinia, begun in October 1935

1. ASpitfire and the Hurricane
2. BZero and the Mitsubishi bomber
3. CStuka and the Messerschmitt
4. DSopwith Camel and the Fokker

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Abrought the United States and its industry into the war on the Allied side
2. Bforced the Soviet Union to make peace with Germany in the east
3. Cpersuaded Italy to leave the Axis and change sides against Germany
4. Ddestroyed the whole of the American navy, its aircraft carriers included as well

1. Athe withdrawal of Britain and France from every colony by 1946
2. Bthe founding of the United Nations Organisation in 1945
3. Cthe founding of the League of Nations at Geneva in 1920
4. Dthe return of Germany to its 1939 borders under one government

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Areturning ex-servicemen and wartime hardship fed demands for independence
2. Bevery African colony was granted its independence before the war ended
3. Cthe European powers agreed at once to hand back all the land in Africa
4. DAfrican soldiers were kept away from all the fighting fronts of the war in Europe and Asia

1. AMadagascar
2. BAngola
3. CZambia
4. Dthe Democratic Republic of Congo

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe right to send soldiers into another member state's territory
2. Bscholarships, trade links and technical help exchanged between members
3. Ca single currency used by every member state of the association
4. Dan automatic permanent seat for each member on the United Nations Security Council

1. AEgypt
2. BKenya
3. CNigeria
4. DTanzania

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aclosing the borders between members to all cross-border trade
2. Breplacing every national government in the region with one single regional government
3. Chanding all the mineral wealth of the region to a single member
4. Dfreeing trade between members and sharing water, power and transport

1. AIndia
2. BJapan
3. CFrance
4. DGermany

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aordering sanctions and sending peacekeeping forces to a conflict
2. Bdrawing up the annual budget of each member state's government
3. Celecting the judges who sit in the national courts of each member
4. Dsetting the school curriculum taught in every member state

1. AStalin, with Rasputin advising him from Petrograd
2. BKornilov, with the Duma acting under his orders
3. CLenin, with Trotsky organising the seizure of power
4. DKerensky, with Tsar Nicholas II acting as his deputy

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Afactories passed into state hands and an eight-hour day was decreed
2. Bthe Tsar was restored to his throne with the workers' own backing
3. Cthe old landowners were confirmed in every estate they had held
4. DRussia stayed in the First World War until the fighting ended in 1918

1. Adrive the Japanese army out of Manchuria in one long campaign
2. Bcarry the harvest of the southern provinces north to feed Peking
3. Cjoin the Russian Red Army fighting on the Mongolian border
4. Descape the encirclement campaigns of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ashare out the land of the southern provinces between the two parties
2. Bresist the Japanese invasion of China instead of fighting each other
3. Chold a free election in which both parties agreed to put up candidates
4. Dinvite the United States to govern China until the fighting was over

1. AChe Guevara
2. BRaul Castro
3. CFulgencio Batista
4. DFidel Castro

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aall the land was returned to the American companies that had held it
2. Bsugar estates and foreign-owned firms were taken into state hands
3. Cthe peso was replaced by the United States dollar as the currency
4. DCuba's trade with the United States grew steadily after 1961