OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + USA 1945-1974: the people and the state June 2018 question paper J410/07

Outline the impact of the worldwide economic depression on international relations in Europe in

the 1930s.

Explain why the USA got more involved in the war in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Study Interpretation A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on Chamberlain and the policy of Appeasement?

Use your knowledge and other interpretations of Appeasement to support your answer.

Study Interpretation B.

Explain why not all historians and commentators have agreed with this interpretation. Use other

interpretations and your knowledge to support your answer.

() Spelling, punctuation and grammar and the use of specialist terminology

Interpretation B

America’s leaders often whipped up Cold War fears that were very exaggerated. These at times frightened its allies but also deepened divisions at home. However, whether the Cold War could have been managed much less dangerously is doubtful. This is because of the way Stalin and his successors operated, and because of the refusal of American policy-makers to retreat from their grand expectations of their role in the post-war world.

From ‘Grand Expectations’, written by the US historian James Patterson and published in the USA in 1996.

Describe one example of action by the Black Power movement in the 1960s.

Explain why the women’s movement emerged during the 1960s.

Study Sources A and B.

Is one source more useful than the other about the Birmingham civil rights march in 1963?

A photograph of the march on Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963, published on the front page of the New York Times newspaper.

Source B

Instead of submitting to secretive cruelty in thousands of dark jail cells and on countless shadowed streets, we are forcing our oppressor to commit his brutality openly – in the light of day – with the rest of the world looking on. To condemn peaceful protestors on the grounds that they provoke violence is like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money caused the robbery.

An extract from a letter written from Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King about his tactics in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.

8* ‘The fall of China to communism was the most important reason for the Red Scare in the late

1940s and early 1950s.’ How far do you agree?