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Class Register Number Name HUMANITIES (HISTORY) (2261/02) 25/S4PR/HI MONDAY 18 August 2025 1 hour 50 minutes VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SECONDARY FOUR Additional Material: Writing Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A: Answer all parts of Question 1. Section B: Answer two questions. Begin each question on a fresh page. 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. The total number of marks for this paper is 50. This paper consists of 7 printed pages, including the cover page. [Turn over

2 Setters: Ms Chua Wai Yi, Mr Khoo Kay Yong and Mr Leo Hock Leng Section A: Source-Based Case Study Question 1 is compulsory for all candidates. Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those you are told to use. In answering the questions, you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 (a) Study Source A. What is the message of the cartoon? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Sources B and C. How far does Source B make you surprised by what Churchill did in Source C? Explain your answer. [6] (c) Study Sources D and E. How far would Kennan have agreed with Wallace in Source D? Explain your answer. [6] (d) Study Source F. Why do you think USSR published this cartoon in 1947? Explain your answer. [5] (e) Study all the sources. ‘Cold War came about mainly due to the emergence of USA as a superpower.’ How far do these sources support this view? Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer. [8] @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/S4PR/HI

3 The Cold War BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. The Cold War was a decades-long period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the USA and the USSR, emerging after 1945 when World War II ended. With traditional European powers weakened by the war, the USA and the USSR rose as superpowers. Their wartime alliance quickly dissolved due to fundamentally incompatible ideologies and deep distrust. In Yalta (February 1945) and in Potsdam (July-August 1945), both powers had differing views about what the postwar world should be like. Relations also worsened after Potsdam due to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the postwar developments in Eastern Europe. By 1946 Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania all had Communist governments which owed their loyalty to Stalin. Churchill described the border between Soviet-controlled countries and the West as an iron curtain. To contain the spread of communism in Europe, Truman introduced the Truman Doctrine in March 1947. Why did the Cold War come about? Source A: A British cartoon published in 1941, with the caption ‘Love conquers all’. The figure in the middle is Stalin being charmed by Roosevelt (USA) and Churchill (Britain). Hitler is depicted as cupid, whose arrows cause people to fall in love. The quiver that Hitler carries is entitled ‘The Common Danger’. @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/S4PR/HI

4 Source B: From the Atlantic Charter, an agreement made between Churchill and Roosevelt, 14 th August 1941, few months before US declared war on Japan. This Charter outlined the war aims and shared vision of post-WWII world between US and Britain. First, our countries seek no expansion nor territorial gains; Second, we desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; Third, we respect the right of all peoples to self-determine and choose the form of government under which they will live; and we wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them; Fourth, we will endeavour with due respect for our existing obligations to further the enjoyment by all states, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity. Source C: From an account of Churchill’s trip to Moscow to discuss with Stalin various post-war problem in October 1944. This account only came out in 1954 with the publication of Churchill’s history of WWII. The moment was apt for business, so I said, ‘Let us settle about our affairs in the Balkans. Your armies are in Romania and Bulgaria. We have interests, missions and agents there. So far as Britain and Russia are concerned, how would it do for you to have ninety per cent control in Romania, for us to have ninety per cent of the say in Greece, and fifty-fifty about in Yugoslavia?’ While this was being translated, I wrote out on a half-sheet of paper: Romania Russia 90% The others 10% Greece Great Britain 90% Russia 10% Yugoslavia 50-50% Hungary 50-50% Bulgaria Russia 75% The others 25% I pushed this to Stalin, he took his pencil and made a large tick upon it, and it was all settled. @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/S4PR/HI

5 Source D: From a political rally speech by US Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace, September 1946. Wallace regarded the expansion of American trade as vital if another depression was to be avoided. To achieve lasting peace, we must study how the Russian character was formed – by invasions of