SAJC_2025_H2 P2_Prelims

© SAJC 2025 9752/02/2025/Prelims 1 ST ANDREW’S JUNIOR COLLEGE Preliminary Examinations General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 2 HISTORY Paper 2 Developments in Southeast Asia (Independence – 2000) 9174/02 29 August 2025 3 hours No Additional Materials are required. 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 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. [Turn Over

© SAJC 2025 9752/02/2025/Prelims 2 Section A You must answer Question 1. VIETNAM’S ACCESSION TO ASEAN 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A Noting Vietnam's accession on 22 July 1992 to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia; Noting also that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has agreed to subscribe or accede, as the case may be, to all ASEAN's Declarations, Treaties and Agreements, including all ASEAN's Agreements with Dialogue Partners, Sectoral Dialogue Partners and Consultative Partners, the Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation and the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area; … Having solemnly accepted the conditions of membership; Now therefore, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam hereby agree and declare as follows: 1. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam becomes the seventh Member State of ASEAN; 2. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam solemnly agrees to subscribe or accede, as the case may be, to all the Declarations, Treaties and Agreements of ASEAN. 1995 Declaration of the Admission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, signed in Brunei Darussalam on 28 July 1995. Source B Vietnam's membership of ASEAN was driven by pragmatic reasons of economic growth, political independence and regime survival in a post -Cold War environment. But in fact the learning process which made Vietnamese decision -makers more aware of convergent domestic and foreign policy goals between Vietnam and ASE AN was instrumental in Vietnam's decision to seek ASEAN membership as quickly as possible. The case of Vietnam joining ASEAN then shows that the process of sociali sation and interactions between Vietnam and ASEAN countries helped improve the awareness of commonalities and promoted cooperative relations. In this connection, Vietnam joining ASEAN was also part of a broader process in which the country forged a new state identity in the post -Cold War e