Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: The unification of Italy, c1830-70 / The unification of Germany, c1840-71 June 2017 question paper 9HI0/2D

Study Sources 1 and 2 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

How far could the historian make use of Sources 1 and 2 together to investigate the role of the Papacy as an obstacle to Italian unity in the years 1861–70?

Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.

Study Sources 3 and 4 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

How far could the historian make use of Sources 3 and 4 together to investigate the importance of Prussia in the Kleindeutschland solution to German unification?

Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.

How far do you agree that Mazzini and his nationalist supporters achieved very little in the years 1830–56?

4 ‘Cavour was the driving force behind the events leading to the outbreak of the Second Italian War of Independence (1859).’

How far do you agree with this statement?

5 ‘The revolutions in the states of the German Confederation in 1848 had no single underlying cause.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How significant was Bismarck’s contribution to the Prussian victory over Austria in 1866?