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Answer all questions from one prescribed subject using the relevant sources. The maximum mark for this examination paper is [24 marks].

Paper 1

Answer two questions, each chosen from a different topic. Each question is worth [15 marks]. The maximum mark for this examination paper is [30 marks]. Where the word "region" is used, it refers to the following four regions: Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Europe.

HI1243

HI1244

HI1245 

HI1246

HI1247

HI1248

Paper 2

Answer any three questions. Each question is worth [15 marks]. The maximum mark for this examination paper is [45 marks].

HI1231

HI1232

HI1233 

HI1234

HI1235

HI1236

HI1237

HI1238

HI1239

HI1240

HI1241

HI1242

Paper 3

Mock Exam Set 1

HI0710

HI0705

HI0736

HI0741

HI0638

HI0746

HI0643

HI0751

HI0902

HI0903

HI1000

HI1001

HI1005

HI1004

HI1006

HI1007

HI1002

HI1003

HI0648

HI0771

HI0345

HI0346

HI0653

HI0658

HI0888

HI0891

Mock Exam Set 2

HI1045

HI1046

HI1047

HI1048

HI1049

HI1050

HI0300

HI0059

HI1022

HI1021

HI1023

HI1024

HI0889

HI0890

HI1025

HI1026

HI1027

HI1028

HI1197

HI1213

Mock Exam Set 3

Move to Global War

Japanese Expansion

Causes of Japanese Expansion

Key Events for Japanese Expansion

Responses to Japanese Expansion

German & Italian Aggression

Causes of German & Italian Expansion

Key Events: German & Italian Aggression

Responses to German & Italian Aggression

Nationalism & militarism, Japanese domestic issues, Manchuria, Pearl Harbor, League of Nations, international response

Fascism & Nazism, economic issues, appeasement, Abyssinia, Nazi-Soviet Pact, and international responses

German and Italian Expansion

Rights & Protest

Civil Rights in the US

Discrimination in the US

Civil Rights Protests

Civil Rights Leaders & Groups

Apartheid South Africa

Apartheid Discrimination

Anti-apartheid Protest & Action

Apartheid Leaders & Groups

African Americans, segregation, Jim Crow, non-violent protests, Civil & Voting Rights Acts, Martin Luther King Jr, NAACP

US Civil Rights Movement

Legislation, "classification" systems, Bantustans, defiance campaign, Sharpeville, Rivonia, Mandela, and key groups

Conflict & Intervention

Ethnic tension, Hutu power, colonial legacy, Rwandan Civil War, genocide, justice, the refugee crisis, and other impacts

Rwanda

Ethnic tension, political issues, Milosevic, ethnic cleansing, international response, refugee crisis, and other impacts

Kosovo

Independence Movements (1800-2000)

Relative importance of nationalism, political ideology, religion, race, social & economic issues, wars and other factors

Origins & Rise to Independence

Violent & non-violent methods used, importance of leaders and other factors in success of independence movements

Methods Used & Reasons for Success

Political problems, ethnic, racial, and separatist movements, social & economic challenges, and responses

Challenges & Responses in First 10 Years

Authoritarian States (20th Century)

Authoritarianism in Mao’s China

Features of Emerging Authoritarian States

Methods to Consolidate and Maintain Authoritarian Rule

Aims and Results of Authoritarian Policies

Economic, social, political, and other factors influencing emergence and methods to establish control

Emergence

Methods to consolidate and maintain power, treatment of opposition, and impacts of foreign policy on power

Consolidation & Maintenance of Power

Domestic policies on economy, society, culture, women, and minorities, extent of authoritarian control

Aims & Results of Policies

20th Century Wars

 The Second World War

Causes of 20th Century Wars

Practices of 20th Century Wars

Effects of 20th Century Wars

Economic, ideological, political, and territorial causes including short- and long-term causes

Causes

Types of war, technological developments, mobilization of resources, influence of foreign powers

Practices & Their Impact on Outcome

Peacemaking, territorial changes, political impacts, economic & social impacts including changes for women

Effects

The Cold War

Rivalry, Mistrust, and Accord

Truman's Impact on the Cold War

Stalin's Impact on the Cold War

Cuba, Castro, and the Cold War

Cold War Crisis in Korea

Breakdown of the Grand Alliance, role of ideology, containment, superpower relations, detente, arms race

Impact of leaders on the Cold War & impact of the Cold War on countries around the world

Leaders & Nations

Causes, impact and significance of Cold War crises around the world

Cold War Crises

History of the Americas

World War 2 and its impacts: diplomacy, the Good Neighbor policy, treatment of women & minorities, and atomic weapons

World War II and the Americas

Cold War in the Americas: Truman, McCarthyism, the Korean War, Eisenhower, Vietnam, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter

The Cold War and the Americas

Social movements post-1945: indigenous, African American, feminist, Hispanic America and youth movements in the Americas

Civil Rights and Social Movements

History of Asia and Oceania

Nationalist rule in China, rise of communism, Sino-Japanese War, Japanese rule in Korea, Taiwan and Republic of China

China and Korea

China under the CCP, role of Mao, the Cultural Revolution, foreign affairs, post-Mao power struggle and changes

The People’s Republic of China

Cold War conflicts in Asia: Malayan Emergency, Korean War, Vietnam, Cambodia and Afghanistan

Cold War Conflicts in Asia

History of Europe

Tsarist Russia and its eventual collapse, the revolutions of 1917, the Civil War and Lenin's rule

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

Short- and long-term origins of World War I, diplomacy, foreign policy, alliances, nationalism and the arms race

Europe and World War I

Domestic developments in Germany, Italy, Spain and one other country in the Inter-war years

Inter-war Domestic Developments in Europe

The Paris peace treaties, the League of Nations, collective security and appeasement, causes and impacts of World War II

Diplomacy in Europe

History of Africa and the Middle East

Internal and external developments in the Ottoman Empire, challenges to rule, reform, and modernization

The Ottoman Empire

WWI in the Middle East and North Africa: political change, Palestinian Mandate, and the origins of Arab-Jewish dispute

War and Change in the early 20th century

Post-WWII tensions, Arab-Israeli conflicts, post-war Egypt, Iran and Lebanon

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