OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Component 14 November 2021 question paper

Outline how the USA and USSR clashed in the 1960s.

Explain why the League of Nations was successful in the 1920s.

Study Interpretation A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on Britain’s policy of appeasing Germany? Use your knowledge and other interpretations of British policy towards Germany between 1937

and 1939 to support your answer.

() Spelling, punctuation and grammar and the use of specialist terminology

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

The end of the Potsdam Conference was bleak and the agreements made there soon fell apart. Stalin’s desire to control Poland and the other states of Eastern Europe was now clear. The Soviets ignored any of our objections to this policy. Western admiration for the heroic role played by the USSR in defeating Germany became dimmed by fear of Soviet ruthlessness and power. There was a real fear that Communist supporters in the West would try to overthrow free democratic government.

From ‘Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference’, written by the US historian and economist Herbert Feis and published in the USA in 1960.