MGS 2022 Sec 4 Prelims Hum (Hist) Qn (reuploaded cuz got some error)

Class Index Number Name : __________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ This question paper consists of 6 printed pages. METHODIST GIRLS’ SCHOOL Founded in 1887 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2022 SECONDARY 4 HUMANITIES (History) Tuesday 2273/02 23 August 2022 1 h 40 min INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your class, index number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer all parts of Question 1. Section B Answer one question. Begin Section B on a fresh sheet of paper. Write all answers on the writing paper provided. At the end of the examination, submit your answers to Sections A and B together. The total number of marks for this paper is 50. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

Page 2 of 6 Methodist Girls’ School Humanities History Secondary 4 Preliminary Examination 2022 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 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 A. What can you learn from this source about the Germans’ response to Nazi economic policies? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Source B. Why do you think this cartoon was published? Explain your answer. [5] (c) Study Source C. How useful is this source to a historian studying Nazi economic policies in the 1930s? Explain your answer. [6] (d) Study Sources D and E. Does Source E prove that Source D is true? Explain your answer. [6] (e) Study all the sources. ‘Nazi economic policies benefitted the Germans.’ How far do these sources support this view? Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer. [8]

Page 3 of 6 Methodist Girls’ School Humanities History Secondary 4 Preliminary Examination 2022 Nazi Economic Policies BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. The Germans elected the Nazis to power in the midst of the Great Depression with the Nazi Party’s promise of ‘Work and Bread’, amongst other things. Soon after coming to power, the Nazis began creating organisations and job schemes that would provide jobs for the six million Germans who were unemployed. Workers had to join the German Labour Front (DAF) where they were put to work to construct autobahns (motorways) and other public works. The Nazis also set up the Reich Labour Service (RAD) where all 18- to 25-year-old men had to do six months of work ser vice. This gave them jobs on projects that needed a huge amount of manual labour. However, the RAD also served other purposes such as indoctrination and preparing the young German men for military service. Within the DAF, the Nazis also set up two organisations: Beauty of Labour and Strength Through Joy (KdF). The first aimed to improve working conditions in factories while the second rewarded workers by organising leisure activities such as cruises and concerts for them. Did Nazi economic policies benefit the Germans? Source A: A conversation between an autobahn worker and a member of the Nazi Women’s League overheard on a train in 1936. Man: ‘We work outdoors in all kinds of weather, shovelling dirt for 51 pfennigs* an hour. Then there are the deductions and the voluntary contribution they take out automatically, and 15 pfennifs a day for a straw mattress in a draughty wooden barracks, and 35 pfennigs for what they ladle out of a cauldron and call dinner… Six months ago we were still getting 66 pfennigs an hour, and now they’re pushing us harder and harder.’ Woman: ‘You can’t expect that the misery brought about by fourteen years of mismanagement will be cured in the twinkling of an eye! But now people have hope. They’re off the streets, and Germany is strong and powerful again. We’ve regained our honour – that’s the main thing! In three years Adolf Hitler has accomplished miracles, and from year to year things are getting better… You must have faith in the Fuhrer!’ * pfennigs: pennies or cents

Page 4 of 6 Methodist Girls’ School Humanities History Secondary 4 Preliminary Examination 2022 Source B: A 1934 cartoon from Humanité, a French daily newspaper which is connected to the French Communist Party. It is captioned: ‘What? Bread? Don’t you know the National Socialist revolution is over?’ Source C: A Social Democratic Party report of the daily programme at a Reich Labour Service (RAD) camp, 1938. The report commented ‘The young people are deadened by physical exertion. The daily wage is not enough to buy beer.’

Page 5 of 6 Methodist Girls’ School Humanities History Secondary 4 Preliminary Examination 2022 4.45am Get up 4.50am Gymnastics 5.15am Wash, make beds 5.30am Coffee break 5.50am Parade 6.00am March to building site. Work until 2.30pm (30 minutes break for breakfast) 3.00pm Lunch 3.30pm Drill 6.10pm Instruction 6.45pm Cleaning and mending 7.15pm Parade 7.30pm Announcements 7.45pm Supper 8.00pm Sing-song or leisure activity 10.00pm Lights out Today… the worker enjoys the magnificent achievements of German drama and German music, the best German orchestras, the best German opera and theatre performances and the best German film… Whoever works hard should be able to enjoy himself thoroughly, so that his value to the nation increases. German workers were not necessarily better off than they had been under the Weimar Republic. It is true that unemployment reduced, but this was due to invisible unemployment* as well as conscription and compulsory Labour Service. Workers had little freed om and had to work long hours. Source D: A comment by Robert Ley, the head of the German Labour Front (DAF). Source E: A secret report by the illegal Socialist Party on the effect of Strength Through Joy (KdF). KdF events have become very popular… KdF is now running weekly theatre trips into Munich from the countryside. Special trains are coming to Munich on weekdays from as far away as 120km. It has therefore been made easy for people from the countryside to go to the theatre in the city. These trips are very popular. Source F: An account by a historian in 1997. * invisible unemployment: employment that does not contribute to the output of an economy

Page 6 of 6 Methodist Girls’ School Humanities History Secondary 4 Preliminary Examination 2022 Section B: Structured-Essay Questions Answer one question. 2 This question is on the Soviet Union. (a) Explain why Stalin introduced the Five-Year Plans. [8] (b) ‘Stalin’s rule improved the lives of the Soviet people.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. [12] 3 This question is on the Cuban Missile Crisis. (a) Explain why Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba. [8] (b) ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis was a victory for the USSR.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. [12] ______________________________________________________________________________ Copyright Acknowledgements: Source A © Hite, J., & Hinton, C. (2012). How Successful Was Nazi Economic Policy? In Weimar & Nazi Germany, The Schools Histo