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2 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 can you learn from Source A about Britain’s attitudes towards Germany in 1919? Explain your answer. [6] (b) Study Source B. How useful is this source as evidence of Britain’s appeasement of Germany? Explain your answer. [7] (c) Study Source C. How surprised are you by Source C? Explain your answer. [6] (d) Study Sources D and E. How far would the cartoonists who drew these two cartoons have agreed with each other? Explain your answer. [7] (e) (f) Study Source F. Why do you think Stalin said this in March 1939? Explain your answer. Study all sources. ‘Britain was justified to pursue a policy of appeasement.’ How far do the sources support this statement. Explain your answer [6] [8] @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/Y3EYE/HI

3 Appeasement of Nazi Germany BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy towards Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and involved the use of negotiation and diplomacy to secure Hitler’s cooperation. The most prominent example of appeasement would be the remilitarisation of Rhineland, Anschluss and Munich Agreement – a settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain and Italy that permitted German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. At the time, it was a popular and seemingly a pragmatic policy. However, some see it as allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked and view it as a sign of Britain’s weakness. In addition, as a major power and a key member of the League, Britain also had a moral duty to uphold the principle of collective security and stand against aggression. Thus, was it justifiable for Britain to pursue a policy of appeasement? Source A: From David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Britain, March 1919 during the Paris Peace Conference. You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth rate power, all the same, in the end, if she feels she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919, she will find means to address the injustice of the treaty. I cannot imagine any greater cause of future war than that the German people, who have proved themselves one of the most powerful and vigorous races in the world, should be surrounded by a number of small states, many of them consisting of peoples who have never previously set up a stable government for themselves, but each of them containing large masses of Germans hoping and fighting for reunion with their native land. VICTORIA SCHOOL 25Y3EYE/HI

4 Source B A British cartoon about the reoccupation of the Rhineland, 1936. Pax Germanica is Latin and means ‘Peace, German style.’ The goose-step refers to the manner in which the Nazi troops marched. The torn paper on the feet of the goose reads ‘Locarno’. @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/Y3EYE/HI

5 Source C: From a speech by Chamberlain about British policy in the aftermath of the union between Germany and Austria, March 1938. His Majesty's Government have expressed the view that recent events in Austria have created a profound disturbance in international confidence. As such, it is our urgent duty to direct our attention to restore this shaken confidence and to maintain the rule of law. So far as Czechoslovakia is concerned, it seems to His Majesty's Government that now is the time when all the resources of diplomacy should be enlisted in the cause of peace. In the meantime, there is no need to assume the use of force, or, indeed, to talk about it. Such talk is to be strongly discouraged. Not only can it do no good; it is bound to do harm. It will interfere with the progress of diplomacy, and it must increase feelings of insecurity and uncertainty. Source D: A cartoon published in a British newspaper in September 1938. Chamberlain is seen pushing a globe on a plank with the word ‘Czech Crisis’ . @VICTORIA SCHOOL 25/Y3EYE/HI

6 Source E: A cartoon published in a British newspaper in September 1938. Chamberlain is seen talking to representatives from Czechoslovakia saying, ‘Horrible and Fantastic, that a quarrel in a faraway country between two peoples of whom we