2024 JPJC J2 H1 History Prelims

Jurong Pioneer Junior College 2024 1 Name:__________________________________________ Class:_____________ JURONG PIONEER JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examination 2024 HISTORY 8838/01 Higher 1 27 August 2024 Paper 1 The Cold War and the Modern World (1945 – 1991) 3 hours Additional materials: Answer Booklet READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST An answer booklet will be provided with this question paper. You should follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper, ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 2 blank pages. [Turn over

Jurong Pioneer Junior College 2024 2 Section A You must answer Question 1. MILITARY ALLIANCES IN EUROPE 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A A Soviet cartoon on the inclusion of West Germany into NATO, produced in 1955. The fish symbolises an atomic bomb. US Army The bib, with the word "ГАРАНТИИ" (guarantees), indicating the supposed assurances given by NATO on the controlled and limited nature of West Germany's rearmament.

Jurong Pioneer Junior College 2024 3 Source B I feel that if (the integration between West Germany and the rest of western Europe) should take place and progress successfully, then we will see a steady social, political, military, and economic advance in Western Germany. This will greatly increase the pressure inside Eastern Germany for joining up with the other part of Germany. It might even become impossible for the Communists to hold the place by force. While out of this situation there might develop conditions that could be almost provocative to a general war, this would come about only if the East--that is, Russia--conducted such a campaign of retaliation, repression, and cruelty that the whole Eastern world would break into flames. However, this could not possibly come about until the West, with the great advantages of (NATO), and with greater unification of Western Europe, would have achieved a position of strength that would certainly deter any Russian plan to risk a global war. From a letter by President Eisenhower to Field Marshall Montgomery on the inclusion of West Germany into NATO, 14 July 1953. Source C It is a well-known fact that already at the end of 1954, the Council of the North Atlantic bloc spoke in favour of arming NATO troops with atomic weapons and increasing NATO’s Western European air forces by one third, as well as expediting the remilitarisation of West Germany. It is worthy of note that certain circles in the United States of America are especially eager to remilitarise West Germany.