Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: The unification of Italy, c1830-70 / The unification of Germany, c1840-71 June 2019 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 nature of Piedmont’s annexation of the central Italian state of Tuscany?

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 reasons for the outbreak of revolution in the German states in 1848?

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 main reason for the failure of both the 1830-32 and 1848-49 revolutions in Italy was a lack of popular support?

How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1848-67, Garibaldi was more often a failure than a success in his attempts to unify Italy?

How far do you agree that, from 1850 until its defeat in the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866, Austria maintained a dominant position over the German states?

6 ‘In the years 1862-71, Bismarck was the master-planner of German unification.’

How far do you agree with this statement?