SAJC 9174 Prelims H2 History P1

© SAJC 2025 9174/01/J2/Prelims/2025 ST ANDREW’S JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examination General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 2 HISTORY Paper 1: The Changing International Order (1945–2000) 9174/01 17 Sept 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 of the 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. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. 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 1 blank page. [Turn Over

2 © SAJC 2025 9174/01/J2/Prelims/2025 Section A You must answer Question 1. THE MARSHALL PLAN AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products , principally from the US , are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deteriorating of a very grave character. It is logical that the USA assists in Europe’s return to normal economic health, 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 and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Any government willing to assist in the task of recovery will find full cooperation from the United States Government. Any government which blocks the recovery of other countries cannot expect help from us. Furthermore, governments which seek to perpetuate human misery to profit thereof will encounter the opposition of the USA. From a speech by US Secretary of State George Marshall, 5 June 1947. Source B In January of this year, an economic conference was held in Moscow of representatives from Bulgarian, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union, at which it was decided to create a Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). The conference has considerable success in the development of economic relations between the countries affected and realising a policy of economic cooperation, which will help to speed up the reconstruction and development of their natio