History Paper 2 November 2024

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athat priests should not take part in burial rites
2. Bthat the gods took no interest in human affairs
3. Cthat the sun and the river held no divine power
4. Dthat the dead lived on and needed their bodies

1. Aallowed records of taxes, laws and religion to be kept
2. Bcould be read by every farmer and craftsman in Egypt
3. Creplaced the need for priests in temple ceremonies
4. Dwere used to print the pharaoh's orders in thousands

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. AEuropean banks refused to lend money to merchants
2. Bports such as Liverpool and Bristol grew rich
3. CEuropean farming was abandoned in favour of trade
4. DEuropean states lost their overseas colonies

1. AAfrican rulers refused to trade with Europe afterwards
2. BAfrica gained no European goods in return for slaves
3. Cit took away young and able-bodied men and women
4. Dit destroyed all the iron working skills of the continent

1. Athe Serbs
2. Bthe Swedes
3. Cthe Danes
4. Dthe Norwegians

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Arefused to allow Germany to make any alliances at all
2. Bordered the German army to stay out of Belgium in 1914
3. Csupported Serbia against Austria-Hungary in July 1914
4. Dbuilt a large navy and pursued an aggressive policy

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe Somme
2. BVerdun
3. CJutland
4. Dthe Marne

1. Athe generals refused to allow artillery to be used
2. Bboth sides ran out of soldiers within the first year
3. Cattackers were cut down by machine guns and wire
4. Dneither side was able to bring up any reinforcements

1. Athe Treaty of Rapallo
2. Bthe Treaty of Berlin
3. Cthe Treaty of Locarno
4. Dthe Treaty of Neuilly

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ait left millions of Magyars under foreign rule
2. Bit forced Hungary to join the League of Nations
3. Cit gave Hungary new territory she could not defend
4. Dit required Hungary to keep an army of a million men

1. Adeal with disputes that threatened the peace
2. Belect the government of every mandate territory
3. Cadmit new members without consulting the Assembly
4. Dappoint the judges of the World Court by itself

1. Athe Corfu incident between Mussolini's Italy and Greece
2. Bthe French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923
3. Cthe quarrel over Vilna between Poland and Lithuania
4. Dthe Aaland Islands dispute between Sweden and Finland

1. Ait met only once every ten years to discuss disputes
2. Bthe United States controlled all of its decisions
3. Cit had no armed force of its own to compel a state
4. Dits members were forbidden to impose any sanctions

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aopposing Germany's union with Austria in 1938
2. Bhanding Libya over to the League of Nations
3. Cjoining Britain and France in the Stresa Front until 1939
4. Dsending troops to help Franco in the Spanish Civil War

1. Aend all state control over Italian industry
2. Bencourage Italians to buy cheaper foreign wheat
3. Cfree Italy from dependence on imported goods
4. Dopen the Italian market to foreign manufacturers

1. Athe Centre Party
2. Bthe Communist Party
3. Cthe Democratic Party
4. Dthe Social Democrats

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ait depended on the German army supporting the Republic
2. Bit left Germany without any industry to rebuild after 1929
3. Cit was rejected by every party in the German parliament
4. Dit rested on short-term American loans that were called in

1. AFrance would not disarm while Germany demanded equality
2. BBritain insisted that every state should rearm at once
3. Cthe Soviet Union was not invited to send any delegates
4. Dthe United States refused to attend the conference at all

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. AAbyssinia joined the alliance between Germany and Japan
2. BBritain and France declared war on Italy at once
3. Cthe League expelled Italy and sent an army to Africa
4. DItaly left the League and drew closer to Nazi Germany

1. AHungary
2. BJapan
3. Cthe Soviet Union
4. DGermany

1. Adestroyed the American aircraft carriers at anchor
2. Bwas launched by aircraft from Japanese carriers
3. Cwas followed by a Japanese landing in Hawaii
4. Dwas preceded by a formal declaration of war

1. Ait brought the United States and her industry into the war
2. Bit destroyed the whole of the Japanese navy in one day
3. Cit forced the Soviet Union to declare war on Germany
4. Dit persuaded Britain to make peace with Germany in 1942

1. Athe closing of the schools across the whole continent
2. Ba fall in the number of women working outside the home
3. Cmillions of refugees and displaced persons needing homes
4. Dthe end of all rationing of food in the year 1945

1. Athe restoration of Austria-Hungary as a great power
2. Bthe splitting of Germany into two separate states
3. Cthe return of the monarchy to every European country
4. Dthe joining of Poland to the Western military alliance

Answer this when you sit the paper.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Arefusal to allow any member state to hold elections
2. Bdecision to close its secretariat in Gaborone in 2001
3. Cexpulsion of Zimbabwe from the organisation in 2008
4. Dslow progress in ending the conflict in the Congo

1. Asending an army to take over the running of the country
2. Bpaying off the whole of Zimbabwe's foreign debt
3. Cappointing a mediator who brokered a power-sharing deal
4. Dexpelling Zimbabwe from all the region's trade agreements

1. Asupplying the settler governments with weapons
2. Brecognising the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith
3. Cgiving bases, training camps and transit routes
4. Dsending their own armies to fight inside Rhodesia

1. Araids and economic pressure from the white-ruled states
2. Bthe refusal of the OAU to recognise their existence
3. Ctheir own refusal to admit refugees from Rhodesia
4. Dthe absence of any land borders with Rhodesia

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ato make every member state join the Western bloc
2. Bto free the parts of Africa still under colonial rule
3. Cto redraw the borders inherited from colonial rule
4. Dto place all African armies under one command

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aits members had no raw materials of any value to sell
2. Bmembers traded mainly with Europe and not with each other
3. Cit forbade its members to trade with any other continent
4. Dit refused to set up any economic institutions at all

1. Athe Security Council
2. Bthe World Trade Organisation
3. Cthe African Union Commission
4. Dthe Commonwealth Secretariat

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aappointing the governments of countries at war
2. Bsending peacekeepers where the parties agree to them
3. Crefusing to discuss any conflict inside an African state
4. Darming one side in each conflict until it wins

1. Athe granting of full democratic rule by Nicholas II
2. Bthe shortage of food and fuel in the Russian cities
3. Cthe rapid rise in peasant land ownership after 1905
4. Dthe refusal of the Tsar to enter the First World War

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Adefeat and huge losses destroyed faith in the Tsar
2. Bthe army refused to fight against Germany from 1914
3. CRussia was forced to give up her whole empire in 1916
4. Dthe war made food and fuel plentiful in the cities

1. ABritain
2. BEgypt
3. CSweden
4. DBrazil

1. Athe return of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1898
2. Bthe seizure of ports and the spread of missionary work
3. Cthe refusal of foreigners to trade in Chinese goods
4. Dthe building of Chinese factories by Chinese owners

1. Athe expulsion of all foreigners from China for good
2. Bthe fall of the Manchu dynasty in the same year
3. Cthe withdrawal of Japan from the whole of Asia
4. Dthe defeat of the Boxers by an international force

1. ACastro was jailed but became known across Cuba
2. Bthe United States broke off relations with Cuba at once
3. Cthe Cuban army joined Castro against the government
4. DBatista was driven from power in Cuba that same year

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. ABatista's soldiers refused to fight from the beginning
2. Bthe guerrillas won the support of the peasants
3. Cthe guerrillas outnumbered Batista's army from the start
4. Dthe United States sent weapons to Castro's forces

1. APeter Stolypin
2. BAlexander Kerensky
3. CGregory Rasputin
4. DNikolai Bukharin

1. Athe loss of all Soviet coal and iron fields to Poland
2. Bthe flooding of Soviet markets with foreign goods
3. Cpeasants holding back grain from the state's low prices
4. Da surplus of skilled engineers with no work to do

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aexcusing them from work in factories and fields
2. Bgiving them equal rights in law and in the workplace
3. Crequiring them to remain at home to raise children
4. Drestoring the old customs of arranged marriage

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Awas limited to the sons of officials and landlords
2. Bwas abolished so that children could work in the fields
3. Cspread literacy through schools and evening classes
4. Dwas left entirely in the hands of foreign missionaries