Mock examinations: revision checklist.
You will have two examinations.
Paper 2h is two hours thirty minutes long. You have to answer 3 questions, two from section A and one from Section B,
Section A. The themes are numbered A1 to A 18 – only the units you have studied will appear in the mock examination. In the final examination all units will be shown. You must answer two questions from this section, each from a different theme. Do not answer two questions from the same theme.
Section B. Answer one question from the Special Topics, B1 to B10. In the mock exam, questions for just two B units are shown.
Paper 3 is one hour long
You have to answer one question. The unit you have studied is C3: the changing nature of warfare in the twentieth century
What follows is a revision checklist.
A8: International Relations, 1919-1939: Collective Security and Appeasement
Aims of the 14 points and their effects on Europe
Why the League of Nations was set up in 1929
Explain what weakened the League of Nations
What were the successes of the League of Nations – be able to give specific examples.
Or
How did the League of Nations respond to the invasion of Manchuria?
What effects did the League’s response to the Manchurian crisis have?
The Disarmament Conference 1932-1933
The Abyssinian Crisis – Research the Battle of Adowa (1896), Haile Selassie, The Hoare-Laval Pact, Sanctions
Describe appeasement – particular reference to Hitler and his actions.
A9: The Road to Affluence: the USA, 1917-1941
Farming/agriculture
Immigration
Reasons for the boom of the 1920s
The stock market boom.
Or
Hoover, policies and actions
Roosevelt and the Civilian Conservation Corps
Organisations and Acts that impacted upon The New Deal
Successes of the New Deal
A15: South-East Asia, 1945-1990s: the End of the French Empire, Vietnam, Indo-China, Malaysia, Indonesia.
Why France lost control of many areas of Indo-China by 1946
Reasons for increasing US support of the S Vietnamese government 1954-61
Research: Operating Rolling Thunder, Napalm, Search and Destroy, Guerrilla Warfare
Changing public opinion of the Vietnam War in the US, propaganda, Mai Lai, and abuses by GIs and S Vietnamese.
Or
The Emergency in Malaya – tactics
Talks between Communists and Malayan government in 1955
Factors in the defeat of the communist uprising in Malaya
The transition from elections in 1955 to independence in 1957
A16: Conflict and Crisis in the Middle East, 1946-1996
Why did Arabs object to the UN Plan for Palestine?
What effect did these objections have on Palestinian Arabs?
Israel’s population increased quickly after 1948. Why?
Factors in the Suez Crisis.
Eisenhower Doctrine, the Soviet Union and Israel. Superpower involvement in the Middle East 1950s & 1960s
Or
Terrorist organisations attacking Israel and the West in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Terrorist attacks in the late 1960s and early 1970s
The Egypt – Israel War of October 1973
PLO – renunciation of violence in 1988, Al Fatah, Yasser Arafat, UN recognition 1974
Menachem Begin, Sinai occupation and Camp David
B4: The First World War: 1914 – 1918
Deadlock on the Western Front
The Somme
Research capture of Neuve Chapelle March 1915
Tactics
B7: The USA, 1917 – 1929
Gangsterism
Al Capone, Chicago and how Capone was portrayed in the press
Prohibition and its link with gangsterism … or otherwise.
Jazz
C3: The Changing Nature of Warfare in the Twentieth Century
The development of the tank
The use of the tank on the Western Front during WW1 – successes and failures
Rommel, the German advance through the Ardennes in May 1940 and Blitzkrieg during WW2
Improving mobility of land forces and the changing nature of land warfare.
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