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 November 2020 question paper J410/07

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 example of opposition to the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964.

Explain why groups other than African Americans protested in the 1960s and 1970s.

Study Sources A and B. How similar are these two sources?

A photograph of a street in Birmingham, Alabama, published as part of an article ‘The South: How far has it come from slavery?’ in an American magazine in 1951.

Source B

We believe in racial purity. We oppose the end of segregation called for by the misnamed civil rights program. This program would totally destroy the social, economic and political life of the Southern people.

We call upon all loyal Americans to unite with us in defeating Harry S. Truman and every other candidate for government who would take away our rights in the United States of America.

An extract from a statement of aims by a Southern political party during the 1948 presidential election.

8* ‘The Red Scare was an over-reaction to a Communist threat which did not exist.’ How far do you

agree with this view of the USA between 1945 and 1954?