Marks
58. Either (a)
Describe and account for two of the following aspects of the peace settlement
of 1919:—
(i) the treatment of Germany;
(ii) the treatment of Austria;
(iii) the setting up of the League of Nations. (20)
Or (6)
“ When President Wilson returned to America in 1919, with the Treaties
he had signed and the Covenant of the League he had created, the Senate
repudiated both.”
Answer the following questions
(i) Who was “ President Wilson ” ? (2)
(ii) What is meant by “ the League ” ? In what circumstances, and with
what aims, had it been established ? (8)
(iii) What is “ the Senate ” and how is it chosen ? (6)
(iv) Why would a British parliament be unlikely to treat a British Prime
Minister as Wilson was treated by the Senate ? (4)
59. Give an account of Hitler’s foreign policy from 1933 to 1939. (20)
60. Write notes on two of the following:—•
the Gallipoli Campaign; Fascist rule in Italy; Thomas Masaryk; the Spanish
Civil War; fighting in North Africa in the Second World War; Hiroshima. (20)
61. Either (a)
Give an account of three of the following and show their importance in
Russian history:—
(i) Kerensky;
(ii) the New Economic Policy;
(iii) Trotsky;
(iv) the collectivisation of agriculture;
(v) Hitler’s Russian Campaign. (20)
Or (6)
Sketch the career of Franklin D. Roosevelt up to Pearl Harbour.
(You may find the following headings useful: personal background; the
Great Depression; the New Deal; the end of Isolationism.) (20)
62. For this question see the special map sheet provided. (20)
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