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1 Temasek Junior College 2017 [Turn Over   TEMASEK JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examinations HIGHER 2   HISTORY 9752/1 Paper 1 Shaping the International Order (1945-2000) Wednesday, 30 August 2017 3 Hours   No Additional Materials are required.   READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name Centre number, index number and name on the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Start each answer on a fresh piece of writing paper. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together with the cover sheet on top. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear handwriting in your answer. This question paper consists of 5 printed pages.

2    Temasek Junior College 2017   SECTION A You must answer Question 1. THE END OF THE COLD WAR 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow: Source A A US Air Force artistic concept of the Strategic Defense Initiative, published in 1984. Source B As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Yet I do not come here to lament… … the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control. Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? ... There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Ronald Reagan giving a speech in Berlin, 12 June 1987.

3 Temasek Junior College 2017 [Turn Over Source C "Reagan came in with very simple and strongly held views," says Admiral Inman. "It is a valid point of view that he saw the collapse of communism coming and he pushed i