Grade 11 History Exam Papers and Memos pdf
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1919
Answer any two questions from this Section.
- Study the photograph, and then answer the questions which follow.
Germans demonstrate against the Treaty.
(a) State the main aims of the ‘Big Three’ at the Treaty of Versailles. [5]
(b) Why did the Treaty of Versailles cause problems for Germany up to 1923? [7]
(c) Were the following factors equally important in causing the Second World War?
Explain your answer with reference to (i), (ii) and (iii). [8]
(i) The Treaty of Versailles
(ii) Hitlers’ Foreign Policy
(iii) The Appeasement Policy - Study the cartoon, and then answer the questions which follow.
The Gap in the Bridge
(a) Describe the work of two of the agencies of the League of Nations. [5]
(b) Why did the League of Nations failed to prevent Mussolini from invading
Abyssinia? [7]
(c) How far was the League of Nations doomed from the start?
Explain your answer. [8] - Study the extract, and then answer the questions which follow.
The ability to get to the verge (that is, the brink) without getting into war
is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If
you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
(a) What decisions were taken at the Yalta Conference in 1945? [5]
(b) Why did the USA – USSR alliance began to break down in 1945? [7]
(c) Explain how the following factors worked together to bring about the defeat of the
USA in Vietnam. Explain your answer with reference to (i), (ii) and (iii). [8]
(i) Opposition to the war in the USA
(ii) Tactics of the Vietcong
(iii) Conduct of the war by the USA
4 - Study the extract, and then answer the questions which follow.
The UN army tried to restore peace and order to the Congo.
Hammerskjold also called on the other resources of the UN, especially
the WHO and FAO. Together, these organisations provided doctors,
nurses, medicines, experts and advisers. Gradually law and order was
restored to the Congo although the UN army had to fight the breakaway
province of Katanga to achieve this.
From: UN Report in the Congo.
(a) What were the aims of the United Nations Organisation at the time of its
foundation? [5]
(b) Why were UN troops used in the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from
1960? [7]
(c) Was the UNO more successful in Korea than in the Congo?
Explain your answer. [8]
