BSSS 4NA History WA2 QP + Ans Key

BEDOK SOUTH SECONDARY SCHOOL WEIGHTED ASSESSMENT 2 2024 4NA CANDIDATE NAME CLASS REGISTER NUMBER Humanities (History) 2126/02 Apr 2024 50 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your class, index number and name on the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black ink on both sides of the paper. Answer all questions on foolscap paper. Attach all answer scripts behind this question paper provided for submission. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. Setter: Mrs Eva Seah For Examiner’s Use Section A Q1a / 5 Q1b / 5 Section B Q2 / 10 Total / 20 This document consists of 3 printed pages.

2 Section A: Source-Based Study Question 1 is compulsory for all candidates. 1 (a) Study Source A. Are you surprised by Source A? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Source B. How useful is th is source about the Marshall Plan ? Explain your answer. [5] The Marshall Plan BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer the questions. After World War II, much of Europe was in economic ruin. In 1947 General George Marshall became U.S. Secretary of State. He believed that the economies of Western Europe urgently needed economic help. In June 1947 he came up with a plan to provide aid to E uropean economies. The United States invited the Soviet Union and its satellite states to join the plan and Soviet representatives attended a conference in Paris to discuss Marshall’s proposals. However, the Soviet Union rejected the Marshall Plan, as the USA probably expected. Stalin saw the proposals as an extension of the Truman Doctrine and an attempt to establish American political control in Europe by making European countries economically dependent on the USA. Was the purpose of the Marshall Plan to bring Western Europe under the control of the USA?

3 Source A: A cartoon published in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda, in 1947. It shows George Marshall as the Statue of Liberty and representatives of the sixteen nations receiving economic aid. *The Statue of liberty is a universal symbol of freedom Source B: From a speech by Marshall in June 1947 It is logical that (the USA) should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Source C: From an article by two British academics, published in 2005. George Kennan, who had helped design the Marsha