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 2025 question paper J410/07

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 A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on Neville Chamberlain and his policies in the period 1937–1939?

Use other interpretations of the events of 1937–1939 and your knowledge to support your

answer.

Interpretation A

From ‘Munich – Its Lessons Ten Years Later’, an essay written by British historian Hugh Trevor‑Roper, published in 1948.

Describe one difficulty faced by African Americans in the USA between 1945 and 1954.

Explain how the US government attempted to prevent the spread of communism within the USA

between 1945 and 1954.

Study Source A.

Explain how this source is useful to a historian studying the USA between 1954 and 1964.

Source A

Part of a television broadcast made by President Eisenhower on 24 September 1957. Eisenhower is speaking about an incident at Little Rock in Arkansas where local officials were preventing African American students from attending a school. Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to protect the students and make sure they could join the school.

Study Source B.

What is the message of the cartoonist?

Source B

A cartoon published in a local newspaper in Alabama in the 1960s.

8* ‘The women’s movement in the USA was successful in achieving its aims between c.1964 and 1974.’

How far do you agree?