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Name: Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examinations Year 6 H2 HISTORY 9752/01 Paper 1 Shaping the International Order (1945 – 2000) 11 September 2017 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Pape r 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. This document consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over]

2 ©DHS 2017   Section A You must answer all questions from this section. THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR 1. Read the sources and then answer the question which follows. When answering Question 1 candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the interpretation and evaluation of the sources both individually and as a group. Source A Of the original ideology, belief is maintained in th e basic badness of capitalism and the innate antagonism between capitalism and socialism. We have seen how deeply this has become imbedded in foundations of Soviet power. It means that there can never be on Moscow’s side any sincere assumption of a community of aims between the Soviet Union and powers which are regarded as capitalist. It must invariably be assumed in Moscow that the aims of the capitalist world are antagonistic to the Soviet regime and, therefore, to the interests of the peoples it controls. In these circumstances, it is clear that the main el ement of any United States’ policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. It must continue to regard the Soviet Unio n as a rival, not a partner, in the political arena. It must continue to expect that Soviet policies will reflect no real faith on the possibility of a permanent happy coexistence of the Socialist and capitalist worlds, but rather a cautious, persistent pressure toward the disruption and weakening of all rival influence and rival power. George Kennan in his article, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”, published on July 1947. Source B Stalin was fully prepared to use unconventional means to promote Soviet interests beyond the territories he ruled. Take what we now know to have been Stalin’s persistent belief, after 1945, of the possibility of an eventual war with capitalism involving the Soviet Uni on itself. This expectation kept Stalin from seeing what was really happening during the early postwar years: Soviet behavior in Eastern Europe and Germany was causing the West Europeans and the Americans to combine in a coalition directed against him. Stalin imagine