OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + South Africa 1960-1994: the people and the state June 2025 question paper J410/05

Outline how the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were intended to ensure future peace.

Explain why Cuba became a focus of tension between the USSR and the USA in the 1960s.

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

From ‘The Origins of the Cold War’, an essay written by US historian Arthur Schlesinger, published in 1970.

Describe one feature of the South African elections of 1994.

Explain why PW Botha’s ‘total strategy’ failed in the 1980s.

Study Source B.

What is the message of the cartoonist?

Source B

A cartoon published in a British newspaper in 1964. Johannes Vorster was South African Minister of Justice in 1964. The Minister of Justice was in charge of the police and law courts.

‘It is anybody’s right to oppose or campaign against apartheid’ says Johannes Vorster, South African Minister of JUSTICE.

8* ‘In the 1970s, resistance against Apartheid was not effective.’

How far do you agree?