Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911-46 / Spain, 1930-78 June 2022 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 the seriousness of the threat posed by the March on Rome in October 1922?

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 significance of the results of the election of February 1936 in Spain?

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

3 ‘The ‘battle for grain’ was a success, but the ‘battle for births’ was a complete failure.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

4 ‘The key features of Mussolini’s government in the Republic of Salò (1943–45) were completely different from the key features of Mussolini’s government in Italy in the years 1922–43.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How accurate is it to say that the fall of Barcelona was more significant than the fall of Madrid to the outcome of the Spanish Civil War?

How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1939–56, the main consequence of Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War was the Falange’s domination of the ‘new state’?