Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911-46 / Spain, 1930-78 June 2017 question paper 9HI0/2G

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 Mussolini’s responsibility for the murder of Matteotti in 1924?

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 strength of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War?

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

To what extent did economic problems outweigh the political difficulties faced by Giolitti’s government in Italy in the years 1911–14?

4 ‘Mussolini’s attempt to make Italy a Great Power was undermined mainly by Italy’s economic weakness.’

How far do you agree with this statement about Italy’s foreign policy in the years 1935–40?

How accurate is it to say that women enjoyed substantially greater freedoms during the Civil War than under Franco’s dictatorship in the years 1938–56?

6 ‘The main consequence of the economic crisis in Spain, in the years 1956–59, was the decline of the Falange.’

How far do you agree with this statement?