Dunman Sec S2 History 2023 EOY

DUNMAN SECONDARY SCHOOL CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER END-OF-YEAR EXAMINATION 2023 SECONDARY 2 EXPRESS HISTORY 27 September 2023 Additional Materials: Writing Paper 1 hour 15 minutes String READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class, index number and question number on all the work that you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use correction fluid. Section A Answer all parts of Question 1. Section B Answer all questions. At the end of the examination, submit the following SEPARATELY: • Section A • Section B The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part of a question. The total number of marks for this paper is 35. This document consists of 5 printed pages.

2 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 - Section A: Source-Based Question [15 marks] Study the sources and Question 1 carefully, and then answer all parts of the question. For each question part, you should use the source(s) indicated to help you answer the question. In answering the questions, you should also use your knowledge of the topic to interpret and analyse the sources. 1(a) Study Source A. What can you infer about the Sook Ching Operation? Explain your answer, using details from the cartoon. [4] (b) Study Source B. Why was Source B published? Explain your answer. [5] (c) Study Sources C and D. How different are Sources C and D? Explain your answer. [6]

3 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 The Japanese Occupation Source A: A cartoon by Singaporean cartoonist Liu Kang.The caption of the source reads “Those chosen to be massacred were often made to dig their own graves before they were killed by the Japanese soldiers”. Source B: Adapted from a comment by Army Chief of Japanese Army in the Syonan Times 23 Feb 1942. It is hereby declared that the recent arrests of hostile and rebellious Chinese have been carried out. It goes without saying that they are indeed so -called traitors. Thus, it is most important to sweep away these disloyal Chinese elements. The Japanese Army had never dreamt of having to use har sh methods so suddenly. It was the unfriendly Chinese and their cooperation with Japan’s enemy against us that deserved the anger of the Japanese army. If the Chinese had accepted Japanese rule, the army would have treated them well. Japanese Soldiers

4 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 Source C: Adapted from a view expressed by a Japanese writer after the Japanese Occupation. We put to death t housands of Chinese as they were found to be anti -Japanese after questioning during Operation Clean -up ( Sook Ching) . They deserve the punishment. However, it is a lie to say that there were no guidelines given in Operation Clean -up. A military reporter visiting the sites recalled seeing Kempeitai officers turning the pages of a record book containing names and other information of the Chinese. If a military reporter could be bothered to visit the sites on a hot day, it showed that the Japanese army took Operation Clean-up very seriously. During the early days of the Occupation, the Japanese army intended to adopt a soft approach and had never dreamt of having to resort to harsh methods so suddenly. Source D: A historian account of Sook Ching screening based on eye-witnesses account. The Japanese screening and killing of thousands of Chinese based on mere suspicion of anti-Japanese activities were terrifying . In addition , the screening was carried out in a random manner. At some centres men were interviewed; at others they were barely questioned before their fates were decided by the Japanese officer s. Reports later emerged of presence of black-hooded informants at the centres who pointed out those to be executed. Some might have used their position to take revenge, while others merely picked out faces from the crowd at random. Certain groups were clearly at risk: anyone who had assisted the war effort in China, teachers and journalists, former British employees or those the Japanese thought were pro-British. Sometimes, a man’s fate might be sealed by something as insignificant as speaking the Hainanese dialect, that he had tattoos or wearing glasses or even signing his name in English.

5 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 Section B: Structured Questions [20 marks] Answer all questions. 2 a) b) This question is on the merger and separation of Singapore and Malaya. Describe why Tunku was initially unwilling to merge with Singapore. Explain two reasons for Singapore’s separation from Malaysia. [4] [6] 3 a) b) This question is on challenges Singapore faced after 1965 and how it overcame them. Describe the security challenges faced by Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s after separation from Malaysia. Explain two ways that Singapore managed to overc ome its security challenges in the 1960s and 1970s. [4] [6] END-OF-PAPER Acknowledgement: Source A: Chop Suey by Liu Kang. Source B: The Syonan Times 23 February 1942 & The Japanese War has not ended. Source C: The Price of Peace: True Accounts of the Japanese Occupation compiled and edited by Foong Choon Hon. Source D: Singapore a Biography by Mark Frost.

6 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 Dunman Secondary School End of Year Examination 2023 Secondary 2 Express History Answer Scheme Section A: Source-Based Questions 1 (a) Study Source A. What can you infer from Source A about the Sook Ching Operation? Explain your answer, using details from the cartoon. [4] Level Descriptor Marks L1 Describing source/Lifting information from source/ Misinterpret source. e.g. Japanese soldiers were pointing their rifles at the people digging their own graves. 1 L2 States a valid Inference, unsupported. e.g. I can infer from Source A that Sook Ching was an inhumane/terrifying experience. 2 L3 States a valid Inference, supported with valid source use. Award the higher mark for a more developed answer. e.g. I can infer from Source A that Sook Ching was an inhumane/terrifying experience. This is evident in the source which shows those who are about to be massacred digging their own graves. This explains that Sook Ching was a cruel/traumatic/ an inhumane experience as not only are the victims going to die but knew they could not escape their fate. 3-4

7 HISTORY/EYE/2EXP/2023 1 (b) Study Source B. Why was Source B published? Explain your answer. [5] Level Level Descriptors Marks L1 Lifting from source/Misinterpretation of source e.g. If the Chinese had accepted Japanese rule, the army would have treated them well. 1 L2 Context / Impact without Message Impact e.g. This newspaper article was published to justify Army o