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 November 2020 question paper J410/05

Outline the actions of Al-Qaeda in the period 1995–2001.

Explain why countries lost confidence in the League of Nations in the 1930s.

Study Interpretation A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on Chamberlain and the policy of Appeasement between 1937 and 1939? Use your knowledge and other interpretations of British policy towards

Germany between these dates to support your answer.

Study Interpretation B.

Explain why not all historians and commentators have agreed with this interpretation of the early stages of the Cold War. Use other interpretations and your knowledge to support your answer.

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Interpretation B

American leaders had come to believe it was necessary and right to expand America’s influence. America’s policies offered the Russians no real choice. Particularly after the atom bomb was created and used, the attitude of the United States left the Soviets with only one real option; either to accept American dominance or to confront them.

From ‘The Tragedy of American Diplomacy’, written by the US historian William Appleman Williams and first published in the USA in 1960.

Describe one way that the African National Congress (ANC) in exile continued fighting against

Apartheid.

Explain why there was an uprising in Soweto in 1976.

8* ‘The failures of the National Party government led to the collapse of Apartheid.’ How far do you

agree?