DHS H2 Y6 Prelim 2025 P2 QP

Name: Centre Number/Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examinations Year 6 H2 HISTORY 9174 / 02 Paper 2 Developments in Southeast Asia (Independence–2000) 24 September 2025 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet 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. At the end of the examination, fasten 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. [Turn over]

2 ©DHS 2025 Section A You must answer all questions from this section. FORMATION OF ASEAN 1. Read the sources and then answer the question which follows. Source A Initially, it was Mr Thanat Khoman of Thailand and Mr Adam Malik of Indonesia who initiated the idea of a new regional grouping. The Thais were nearest to Indochina. The Thais, as you know, had been involved in Indochina and had been very pro -American. Indonesians were concerned that if the Vietnamese won they would become the proxy of either the Chinese or the Russians or both. Who would then dominate mainland Southeast Asia? Would it be China or Russia? Both would be equally bad for Indonesia. So they thought that something had to be done to deal with this threat. Singapore was responsive to the concept of ASEAN because it saw merit in it, provided it was not an anti-communist or pro -American outfit. We did not highlight the political motivations because the Chinese and the Russians would have attacked them. In fact, in the early years, both the Chinese and the Soviets accused ASEAN of being a stalking horse for American imperialism, a neo-colonialist plot. From an interview with S. Rajaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, 30 November 1985. Source B We in Singapore, are not unmindful of the fact that regional cooperation will run into more rocks than calm waters. E ach of us in this region had our differences, compelled to do things purely on the basis of national interest. We must think not only of our national interests but posit them against regional interests: That is a new way of thinking about our problems. We must also accept the fact, if we are really serious about it, that regional existence means painful adjustments to those practices, and thinking in our respective countries. We must make these painful and difficult adjustments. The last point that I would like to stress is that there may be misunderstanding as to what ASEAN is all about. So, I would