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3410 15270 5499310056 Centre Number Student Number 2010 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N Modern History Total marks 100 Section I Pages 2 6 25 marks This section has two parts, Part A and Part B Allow about 45 minutes for this section General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 3 hours Write using black or blue pen A source booklet is provided at the back of this paper Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this page and page 5 Part A 15 marks Attempt Questions 1 8 Part B 10 marks Attempt Question 9 Section II Pages 7 9 25 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 18 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Section III Page 10 25 marks Attempt BOTH parts of Question 19 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Section IV Pages 11 13 25 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 20 26 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Section I World War I 1914 1919 25 marks Allow about 45 minutes for this section Part A 15 marks Attempt Questions 1 8 Allow about 25 minutes for this part For multiple-choice questions, fill in the response oval next to the alternative that best answers the question. For other questions, answer in the spaces provided. These spaces provide guidance for the expected length of response. Use Source A to answer questions 1 2. 1 Where was the Western Front at the end of 1914? (A) Belgium and France (B) France and Germany (C) Belgium, France and Germany (D) Belgium, France, Germany and Holland 2 In which year did the Germans come closest to Paris? (A) 1914 (B) 1916 (C) 1917 (D) 1918 3 Which two of the following factors best explain why the Somme Offensive in 1916 failed to take more ground? i Insufficient British troops ii The failure of British tanks iii The strength of German defences iv Inadequate British military planning and tactics (A) i and ii (B) ii and iii (C) i and iv (D) iii and iv 2 1 1 1 8287310054 Use Source B to answer questions 4 6. 4 Robert Graves describes the suitability of which weapons amongst the Cuinchy brick-stacks? (A) Gas and tanks (B) Rifles and artillery (C) German rifle-grenades and trench-mortars (D) German sausage mortar-bombs and machine guns 5 What is the meaning of the word snipes as used by Graves? (A) To climb into the trenches (B) To look down into the trenches (C) To fire generally into the trenches (D) To shoot at a specific target in enemy trenches 6 According to Graves, the British could not respond effectively to German attacks because (A) German trenches were better constructed. (B) Germans were better positioned in the trenches. (C) German rifle grenades were better than British ones. (D) Germans had more and superior weapons to the British. 7 Use your own knowledge and Source C to give THREE reasons why it was difficult to evacuate wounded men from the trenches. 1 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... 3 1 1 3 8 Use your own knowledge and Sources B and D to answer this question. 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This space provides guidance for the expected length of response. Question 9 (10 marks) How useful would Sources E and F be for a historian studying the different goals of Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson in creating the Treaty of Versailles? 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End of Question 9 6 Board of Studies NSW 2010 2 010 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFIC ATE EXAMINATION Modern History Section II National Studies 25 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 18 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately present a sustained, logical and cohesive response Question 10 Option A: Australia 1945 1983 (25 marks) (a) Assess the impact of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) split in 1954 on Australian society and politics. 25 OR (b) To what extent was Australian foreign policy between 1945 and 1983 a reaction to the Cold War? 25 Question 11 Option B: China 1927 1949 (25 marks) (a) To what extent was national unity the most important concern of the Guomindang (GMD/Kuomintang) during the Nationalist decade 1927 1937? 25 OR (b) 3412 Assess the impact of Japanese imperialism on China after 1931. 7 25 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately present a sustained, logical and cohesive response Question 12 Option C: Germany 1918 1939 (25 marks) (a) Assess the influence of the German army on the successes and failures of the Weimar Republic by 1933. 25 OR (b) Evaluate Hitler s role in the Nazi state between 1933 and 1939. 25 Question 13 Option D: India 1919 1947 (25 marks) (a) Account for the growth of the All-India Muslim League in the 1930s. 25 OR (b) Assess the impact of World War II on the movement towards Indian independence. 25 Question 14 Option E: Indonesia 1959 1998 (25 marks) (a) To what extent was Sukarno responsible for his own downfall? 25 OR (b) How significant were the problems of East Timor and other regions in bringing about the collapse of the New Order? 8 25 Question 15 Option F: Japan 1904 1937 (25 marks) (a) Account for Japan s emergence as a great power by the 1920s. 25 OR (b) Evaluate the impact of the Great Depression on Japanese politics to 1937. 25 Question 16 Option G: Russia and the Soviet Union 1917 1941 (25 marks) (a) To what extent was the New Economic Policy (NEP) essential to the Bolshevik consolidation of power? 25 OR (b) Assess the impact of the purges on the development of Stalinism during the 1930s. 25 Question 17 Option H: South Africa 1960 1994 (25 marks) (a) Assess the significance of the Sharpeville massacre in the changing nature of national resistance to apartheid after 1960. 25 OR (b) To what extent was the use of repression and oppression by the South African government effective as a means of exercising its control before 1994? 25 Question 18 Option I: USA 1919 1941 (25 marks) (a) How significant were Republican policies in causing the Great Depression? 25 OR (b) To what extent did the economic difficulties of the 1930s have a greater effect on workers than any other group in American society? 9 25 Section III Personalities in the Twentieth Century 25 marks Attempt BOTH parts of Question 19 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Answer part (a) of the question in a writing booklet. Answer part (b) of the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately present a sustained, logical and cohesive response Answer BOTH parts of this question in relation to ONE of the twentieth-century personalities listed below. Write the name of the personality you have studied on the front of your writing booklet(s) under your student number. Question 19 (25 marks) (a) Describe the life of the personality you have studied. 10 (b) People are swept along by events. Some individuals use events to advantage. 15 How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied? The personalities prescribed for study are listed below. 1 Yasser Arafat 10 Mohammed Ali Jinnah 19 Leni Riefenstahl 2 Joseph Benedict Chifley 11 Alexandra Kollontai 20 Eleanor Roosevelt 3 Herbert Evatt 12 Douglas MacArthur 21 Albert Speer 4 Mikhail Gorbachev 13 Nelson Mandela 22 Achmad Sukarno 5 Emperor Hirohito 14 Golda Meir 23 Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) 6 Ho Chi Minh 15 Robert Gordon Menzies 24 Leon Trotsky 7 Kita Ikki 16 Bernard Law Montgomery 25 Woodrow Wilson 8 William Randolph Hearst 17 Jawaharlal Nehru 26 Isoruku Yamamoto 9 J Edgar Hoover 27 Zhu De (Chu Teh) 18 Ian Paisley 10 Section IV International Studies in Peace and Conflict 25 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 20 26 Allow about 45 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately present a sustained, logical and cohesive response Question 20 Option A: Anglo-Irish Relations 1968 1998 (25 marks) (a) To what extent were British policies and actions the main cause of the growth of conflict in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1972? 25 OR (b) Assess who gained and who lost as a result of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. 25 Question 21 Option B: Conflict in Europe 1935 1945 (25 marks) (a) How significant were the Battle of Stalingrad and the Russian campaign in leading to the Allied victory in the European War? 25 OR (b) Assess the impact of Nazi racial policies on civilians during the European War. 25 Question 22 Option C: Conflict in Indochina 1954 1979 (25 marks) (a) Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics used by the opposing sides during the Second Indochina War. 25 OR (b) Account for the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. 11 25 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately present a sustained, logical and cohesive response Question 23 Option D: Conflict in the Pacific 1937 1951 (25 marks) (a) To what extent was the Battle of Midway the most significant turning point in the Pacific War? 25 OR (b) Assess the impact of the Pacific War on the home fronts in Australia and Japan. 25 Question 24 Option E: Arab Israeli Conflict 1948 1996 (25 marks) (a) Assess the significance of the War of Independence (The Catastrophe) to the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians to 1967. 25 OR (b) To what extent was there support and opposition to the peace process among Israelis and Palestinians between 1987 and 1996? 25 Question 25 Option F: The Cold War 1945 1991 (25 marks) (a) To what extent did the creation of the Berlin Wall in 1961 affect the development of the Cold War? 25 OR (b) Evaluate the successes and failures of the policy of Detente by the end of the 1970s. 12 25 Question 26 Option G: The United Nations as Peacekeeper 1946 2001 (25 marks) (a) How successful was the United Nations in meeting the challenges associated with the creation of Israel, the establishment of Communist China and the outbreak of the Korean War? 25 OR (b) Assess the effectiveness of the UN as international peacekeeper in any TWO of the following FOUR conflicts: the Gulf War and its aftermath; the former Yugoslavia; Somalia 1993 and Rwanda 1994; East Timor 1999 2001. End of paper 13 25 BLANK PAGE 14 Board of Studies NSW 2010 2010 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N Modern History Source Booklet Awaiting copyright Source A Source B Source C Page 3 Source D Page 3 Page 4 Source F 3413 Page 2 Source E Instructions Detach this source booklet Page 2 Page 4

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