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Class / Index Number / NameTECK WHYE SECONDARY SCHOOL
Secondary THREE EXPRESS
Final Year Examination
COMBINED HUMANITIES 2193/03
Paper 3 Elective History
05 October 2009 1 hour 30 minutes
Additional Materials: Writing Paper
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Section A: You must answer all parts of Question 1.
Section B: Choose one question. Answer all parts of that question.
Write your answers on the writing paper provided.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
The number of marks for each part-question is shown in brackets.
This paper consists of 06 printed pages
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Section A (Source-based Case Study)
Question 1 is compulsory for all candidates.
Study the background information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions.
You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources which you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources.
1 / (a) / Study Source AWhat is the message of this cartoon? Explain your answer. / [5]
(b) / Study Sources B and C
How different are these two sources in their account of the effects of Stalin’s collectivisation? Explain your answer. / [6]
(c) / Study Source D
Does this source prove that the policy of collectivisation was a failure? Explain your answer. / [7]
(d) / Study Source E
How useful is Source E in telling you about the success of Stalin’s collectivisation? Explain your answer. / [7]
Stalin’s Five Year Plans
Source A A Soviet Poster from 1932.
Source B Adapted from a letter published in a British newspaper in 1933. This letter was written by a group of Englishmen who visited the USSR in 1933 after the first Five Year Plan.
We are recent visitors to the USSR. Everywhere we saw hopeful, enthusiastic and self-respecting workers. Achievements include developing public works, increasing health services, extending education, financial independence of women and the security of children. In spite of many grievious difficulties and mistakes which were made, they [the Russians] are setting an example of industry and conduct which would greatly benefit us [in Britain] if we can encourage our workers to use their systems.
Source C Adapted from an eyewitness account by a Communist Party member of the situation in Ukraine, part of the USSR, during collectivisation.
Here I saw people dying in loneliness by slow degrees, dying hideously, without the excuse of sacrifice for a cause. They had been trapped and left to starve, each in his own home, by a political decision made by the Central government. The most terrifying sights were the little children with skeletal limbs dangling from balloon-like abdoments. Starvation had wiped out every trace of youth from their faces; only in their eyes still lingered the reminder of childhood. Everywhere we found men and women lying around, their faces and bellies bloated, their eyes utterly expressionless.
Source D A report from Gareth Jones, a former British government official who published an article on his visit to Russia in a British newspaper on March 30th, 1933.
“I walked alone through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, ‘There is no bread; we are dying!’ This cry came to me from every part of Russia. In a train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung into the spittoon a crust of bread I had been eating from my own supply. He peasant, my fellow passenger, fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw in an orange peel and the peasant again grabbed and devoured it. The Communist turned silent.
Source E Official Soviet government statistics of grain production. 1913 was before World War I and the Communist take-over. 1928 was the start of the collectivisation. By 1933 almost all agriculture was collectivised. 1940 was the year before Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
Section B (Structured-essay Question)
Answer all parts of any one question.
2 / This question is about Establishing Peacea. / Was the war guilt clause the main reason why the Germans hated the Treaty of Versailles? Explain your answer. / [12]
b. / How far do you agree that the League of Nations was a failure because of the absence of US membership? Explain your answer. / [13]
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3 / This question is about Authoritarian Regimes (Russia and Nazi Germany)
a. / Was the economic crisis in Germany the main reason for the rise of Hitler in the 1930s? Explain your answer. / [12]
b. / How far do you agree that Stalin’s rule in Russia was successful in improving the lives of the Russian people? Explain your answer. / [13]
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