Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: Mao's China, 1949-76 / The German Democratic Republic, 1949-90 June 2018 question paper 9HI0/2E

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 impact of the Cultural Revolution on education in China?

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 control of young people in the GDR through the Free German Youth (FDJ)?

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 the consolidation of communist rule in China, in the years 1949-56, can be explained more by support for the CCP than by the use of intimidation?

How accurate is it to say that the agricultural and industrial problems created in China, in the years 1952-62, were solved by the reforms of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping in the years 1962-65?

How far do you agree that, by 1985, the GDR had successfully established an identity as an independent state?

How far do you agree that external influences were more significant than internal problems in explaining the collapse of the GDR in the years 1985-90?