History Paper 2 November 2023

1. Aflowed northwards into the Red Sea at Suez
2. Bwas the shortest of all the African rivers
3. Ckept the whole country free of every disease
4. Dflooded each year and left rich black soil

1. Apaper made from wood pulp
2. Bthe printing of books with movable type
3. Cgunpowder for use in warfare
4. Da shadow clock for telling the time

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1. Aguns, cloth and beads
2. Bcattle, grain and salt
3. Cland along the sea coast
4. Dgold coins and silver plate

1. Alocal crafts declined as European goods came in
2. BAfrican farms began to produce far larger harvests
3. CAfrican states started to mint their own gold coins
4. Dthe old trade routes across the Sahara grew stronger

1. Asigned treaties handing their own people to Europeans
2. Braided their neighbours to obtain captives to sell
3. Csailed the captives across to America themselves
4. Dinvited European armies to come and occupy their land

1. ABritain and Russia
2. BItaly and Austria
3. CSpain and Portugal
4. DFrance and Germany

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1. Adestroyed the Serbian army as a fighting force
2. Bbrought Russia and Germany into alliance
3. Cleft Serbia stronger and Austria alarmed
4. Dgave Austria a port on the Aegean coast

1. Athe campaign was fought through a winter of deep snow
2. Bthe Allies attacked before Turkey had entered the war
3. CGerman submarines sank the whole of the Allied fleet
4. Dthe Turks held the high ground above the beaches

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1. Athe German invasion of Belgium in 1914
2. Ba Japanese attack on American warships
3. Cthe collapse of the Russian armies in the east
4. DGerman unrestricted submarine warfare

1. AEgypt, which was made a French colony
2. BPalestine, which became a British mandate
3. CLibya, which was handed over to Greece
4. DCyprus, which was returned to Turkish rule

1. Aleft with Germany
2. Breturned to France
3. Chanded to Belgium
4. Dplaced under Poland

1. Apay reparations for the damage done
2. Bhand her whole railway system to Poland
3. Chold new elections under French control
4. Dallow Russian troops to occupy Berlin

1. Afix the price of the world's main exports
2. Bchoose the rulers of the newly made states
3. Cstamp out slavery and the trade in drugs
4. Draise an army from each of its members

1. Aonly after a war had already broken out somewhere
2. Bin secret, and reached its decisions without voting
3. Cevery month, with votes for the great powers only
4. Donce a year, with one vote for each member

1. Acould be ignored by a strong power like Italy
2. Bwas able to punish Italy with a heavy fine
3. Ccould raise troops against a member state
4. Dhad settled the quarrel before it began

1. Athe loss of all her farmland to Austria
2. Bheavy war debts and rising unemployment
3. Ca sudden fall in the price of her imports
4. Da shortage of workers for her factories

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1. Awas divided and could not form a strong government
2. Bwas controlled by the Italian Communist Party
3. Chad already voted to make Italy into a republic
4. Dhad been dissolved by order of the League of Nations

1. Ahand the farms over to the churches
2. Bend unemployment and rearm Germany
3. Crestore the powers of the Reichstag
4. Dgive the trade unions more freedom

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1. Astay at home and raise large families
2. Btake up work in the heavy industries
3. Cserve as officers in the German army
4. Dstudy for degrees at the universities

1. AIreland
2. BSpain
3. CSweden
4. DBritain

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1. Aexpelled both Britain and France from its Council
2. Bdid nothing to stop Italy from taking Abyssinia
3. Cgave Germany back her African colonies
4. Drefused to admit any new member states

1. Ahelp Japan to attack China from the west
2. Brecover the land Germany had lost to Russia in 1919
3. Cseize her oil and grain and destroy communism
4. Dforce Britain out of the Middle East

1. AWarsaw
2. BBerlin
3. CStalingrad
4. DVladivostok

1. Alanded her armies on the Japanese home islands
2. Bblockaded Japan's ports for a further two years
3. Chanded the fighting in the east over to Russia
4. Ddropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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1. Asoldiers to stand guard along their eastern borders
2. Bmoney and goods with which to rebuild their economies
3. Cmembership of the trading bloc led by the Soviets
4. Da single currency to be used across all of Europe

1. Awishing to join the Soviet bloc
2. Bstill ruled by colonial powers
3. Cthreatened by communism
4. Dasking for atomic weapons

1. ATanzania
2. BGhana
3. CKenya
4. DNigeria

1. Atake over the work of the OAU in the region
2. Bsupport the liberation wars in southern Africa
3. Cbuild a common army against the Soviet Union
4. Dtrade only with the countries of West Africa

1. Ahad promised to sell their minerals only to Pretoria
2. Bhad agreed to use the South African rand as money
3. Cwere forbidden by the United Nations to trade at all
4. Ddepended on her railways and ports for their trade

1. Athe Summit of Heads of State
2. Bthe Assembly of the Commonwealth
3. Cthe African Court of Human Rights
4. Dthe Security Council of Africa

1. Adisputed elections and unrest in some members
2. Bthe refusal of members to hold any summit
3. Cthe closing down of the SADC secretariat
4. Dthe expulsion of SADC from the African Union

1. Aa free trade area with the other member states
2. Bloans made to her by a SADC central bank
3. Ca single currency circulating in the region
4. Dgrants paid directly to each SADC farmer

1. Aone African army under a single command
2. Brespect for the borders inherited at independence
3. Cfree movement of goods without any duty
4. Dthe right to replace the government of a member state

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1. Aforbade interference in a member's internal affairs
2. Ballowed only Egypt to call the members together
3. Crequired every member state to be a republic
4. Dgave each member state a veto over the yearly budget

1. Athe World Health Organisation
2. Bthe Food and Agriculture Organisation
3. Cthe International Court of Justice
4. Dthe International Monetary Fund

1. Asending its troops to seize members' weapons
2. Bpaying member states to give up their armies
3. Cholding talks that limit nuclear weapons
4. Dordering members to close their arms factories

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1. Aheavy government spending on new railways
2. Bfamine and a collapse in factory output
3. Ca shortage of workers caused by high wages
4. Dfar more grain than the market could take

1. Asell their surplus grain for a profit
2. Bleave Russia and farm in other lands
3. Cpay no taxes at all to the government
4. Dtake over the largest state factories

1. Ahanded the law courts back to the nobles and priests
2. Bbanned rival parties and used a secret police
3. Cclosed every school in the countryside
4. Drefused to give women the right to vote

1. AHo Chi Minh
2. BSyngman Rhee
3. CChiang Kai-shek
4. DEmperor Hirohito

1. Aa shortage of new recruits sent from Russia
2. Bthe loss of their leader Mao Zedong in battle
3. Chunger, cold and constant Nationalist attacks
4. Dheavy bombing by the Japanese air force

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1. Aa famine that emptied the whole island
2. Ba war with the United States over sugar
3. Ccorruption and the poverty of the peasants
4. Dthe loss of Havana to a Spanish force

1. Athe removal of women from all paid employment
2. Ba steady fall in the number of trained doctors
3. Cfree schooling and health care for all Cubans
4. Dthe closing of the island's larger hospitals

1. Athe surrender of the army
2. Bthe fall of Batista's government
3. Cthe seizure of Santiago city
4. Dhis capture and imprisonment

1. APeter Stolypin
2. BAlexander Kerensky
3. CGrigori Rasputin
4. DLev Kamenev

1. Arestoring the Tsar's family to their court
2. Ballowing free elections every five years
3. Cdriving out Trotsky and purging his rivals
4. Dsharing his power with an elected Duma

1. Ahanded the largest factories to foreign owners
2. Bput heavy industry before food and housing
3. Cclosed the railways down for several years
4. Dended all schooling for the workers' children

1. Athe loss of China's coal and iron mines to Japan
2. Bbackward farming that could not feed the people
3. Ca shortage of people to work on the land
4. Dtoo much foreign money held in the banks

1. Amoving them from the villages into the cities
2. Bpaying them their wages in foreign currency
3. Ctaking land from landlords and sharing it out
4. Dfreeing them from every kind of taxation

1. Ajoint control of the Trans-Siberian railway
2. Ba share in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons
3. Ca permanent seat on the Warsaw Pact council
4. Dloans, machinery and experts in the 1950s