OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + Germany 1925-1955: the people and the state June 2019 question paper J410/02

Outline how international peace was encouraged in the 1920s.

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

Describe one impact of the Allied occupation on Germany after World War Two.

Explain how Allied bombing campaigns affected the German war effort during the Second World

War.

Study Source A. Explain why this source was produced in Germany at this time.

Source A

A poster produced by opponents of the Nazis in July 1934. The man shown is a member of the SA.

Study Source B. Explain how this source is useful to a historian studying Nazi Germany.

Source B

All senior trade union officials, such as trade union chairmen and district secretaries, will be held under police protection. So will branch managers of the trade union owned ‘Bank for Workers, Employees and Officials’. The chairmen of local trade union committees and low level union officials will not be held and will be encouraged to continue their work. Exceptions are to be made only with the permission of the most senior members of the Nazi Party.

An official government communication sent by Robert Ley on 21 April 1933. Robert Ley was Head of the German Labour Front (the Nazi Workers’ Union).

8* ‘The use of propaganda was more important than the Nazi police state in controlling Germany in

the 1930s.’ How far do you agree?