Marks
16. Reference Map No. 5 shows two areas in the U.S.S.R.
(i) Describe the agriculture of each area and show how it has been influenced
in each by climate, vegetation and soil. (16)
(ii) What factors, other than geographical, have influenced agricultural output
in the U.S.S.R. ? (4)
17. Explain why Lenin introduced the N.E.P. (New Economic Policy, 1921-8)
and describe it briefly. (8)
Outline the economic policy of Stalin before 1941, showing in what respects
it differed from the N.E.P. (12)
18. Give a short account of two of the following, and explain their importance:—
the League of Nations; the growth of Fascism in Italy between the wars;
the Spanish Civil War; Isolationism in the U.S.A. from 1919 to 1941
(Pearl Harbour); Hitler’s Russian Campaign; the Potsdam Conference
(1945). (10) (10)
19. (i) Outline the events leading up to the formation of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation. (8)
(ii) Write a short note on two of the following explaining their part in move¬
ment towards West European unity:—
the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (O.E.E.C.);
the European Coal and Steel Community (E.C.S.C.);
Western European Union;
the Council of Europe. (12)
20. Write notes on two of the following:—
(i) Canada and Imperial Preference.
(ii) The Security Council of the U.N.O.
(iii) The composition and election of the Congress of the U.S.A.
(iv) The formation of the Fifth Republic of France (1958).
(v) The causes of the Russian Revolution (1917). (10) (10)
SECTION C
Commonwealth Studies
2L (i) What was the importance of The Statute of Westminster (1931) ? (6)
(ii) Suggest reasons why today the term Commonwealth is preferred to that
of British Empire. (4)
(iii) Describe the means by which contact and co-operation between Common¬
wealth members has been secured since 1945. (10)
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