Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: The unification of Italy, c1830-70 / The unification of Germany, c1840-71 June 2018 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 causes of the revolutions in Italy in 1848?

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 relations between Austria and Prussia in the early 1850s?

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

3 ‘The Roman Republic was so short-lived because of a lack of strong leadership.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How far do you agree that the process of Italian unification, in the years 1859-70, resulted in the creation of an enlarged Piedmont rather than a unified Italy?

How accurate is it to say that it was the weaknesses of the revolutionaries rather than the revival of the forces of conservatism that caused the failure of the 1848-49 revolutions in Germany?

How far do you agree that the process of German unification, in the years 1862-71, resulted in the creation of an enlarged Prussia rather than a unified Germany?