DHS H1 Y6 Prelim 2024

Name: Centre Number/Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examinations Year 6 H1 HISTORY 8838 The Cold War and the Modern World (1945 – 1991) 13 September 2024 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, 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, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. This document consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over]

2 ©DHS 2024 Section A You must answer all questions from this section. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1. Read the sources and then answer the question which follows. Source A Mr President, I appeal to you to weigh well what the aggressive actions, which you have declared the USA intends to carry out in international waters, would lead to. If you did this as the first step towards the unleashing of war, it is evident that nothing else is left to us but to accept this challenge of yours. If however, you have not lost your self-control and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war. Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, let us take measures to untie the knot. We are ready for this. From Khrushchev’s message to President Kennedy, 26 October 1962. Source B *Caption reads “Backdown at Castro Gulch”. Castro Gulch refers to Cuba. A political cartoon published in a US newspaper, 29 October 1962. Khrushchev

3 ©DHS 2024 Source C The view of Secretary Khrushchev acting justifiably, reasonably, and in a calculated manner starts to change with the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s when historians began to have access to previously declassified archival materials from the Soviet Union and the Eastern Europe. One historian argues that Khrushchev did not make a cautious move at all. He argues that the potential benefits of having missiles deployed in Cuba were very high, and the risks were also qualified as being very high. Moreover, the chances of war with the US or having to remove the missiles under American pressure were deemed higher than the potential benefits. The Soviet Union knew the risks were high for missile deployment and believed that there was a tremendous danger that the Americans would discover the missiles as well as react aggressively to such a discovery. Ultimately, Se