OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + China 1950-1981: the people and the state June 2019 question paper J410/01

Outline how international peace was encouraged in the 1920s.

Explain why the USA and USSR clashed over Germany in the period 1945 to 1949.

Study Interpretation A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on the reasons why the Cold War began? Use your knowledge and other interpretations of the early stages of the Cold War 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

Munich was the triumph of appeasement but it also marked its failure and this was largely down to Chamberlain. Hitler then took advantage of Chamberlain’s actions and this also wrecked appeasement. Munich happened because of a mixture of Chamberlain’s fear of war and also his good intentions and faith in diplomacy. In hindsight, fear was the more important of those two things.

From ‘English History 1914–45’, a book written by the British historian AJP Taylor. It was first published in 1965.

Describe one example of the way that Deng Xiaoping changed the economy of China between

1976 and 1981.

Explain why the Chinese government took action against opposition in China between 1976

and 1981.

Study Source A. Explain how this source is useful to a historian studying China in the 1950s.

A Chinese poster published by the government in 1950. The poster was titled ‘Women power our economy too’.

Study Source B. How reliable is this source as evidence about how the Chinese government

dealt with their opponents in the early 1950s?

Photograph of the trial of Huang Chin-chi, a landlord, at a ‘people’s tribunal’ on 5 January 1953. The photograph was smuggled out of China and published in the West.

8* ‘Intellectuals suffered more than any other group in China between 1966 and 1976’. How far do

you agree?