EJC_H2_Hist_Prelim_Paper_2

EUNOIA JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2020 General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 2 HISTORY Paper 2 The Making of Independent Southeast Asia (Independence-2000) 9752/02 16 September 2020 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, civics group and question number on the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the pages in the Answer Booklet. Write your answer to each question in the booklet. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. Start each answer on a fresh page in the Answer Booklet. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. At the end of the examination, all work must be handed in. If you have used any additional booklets, please insert them inside the 12-page Answer Booklet. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page.

2 [Turn over] Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN and Regional Security 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A I was informed early this morning that Suharto’s personal liaison, Brigadier General Ali Murtopo, departed for Manila this morning to maintain personal liaison with President Marcos on behalf of President Suharto. Murtopo carries letter from Suharto to Mar cos repeating hope Marcos will do utmost to protect ASEAN, and avoid any action likely to provoke conflict. Letter mentions offer from Suharto to provide facilities anywhere in Indonesia or an ASEAN platform if summit meeting with Tunku takes place. In response to my query on what Suharto expected to emerge from a meeting between Tunku and Marcos, I was informed that Suharto thought the most that could be accomplished would be mutual agreement to protect ASEAN, perhaps reiteration of fact that both renoun ce violent action, and that further mediatory efforts to achieve alleviation of tensions, through ASEAN or otherwise, was welcomed. An excerpt from a telegram to the U.S. Department of State by U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, September 1968. Source B Today there is at least a developing conviction that not only are its over 200 million people members of a regional community but also that they could better meet the uncertainties and challenges of the future through collective effort. This sense of belon ging to a regional community may only be at its incipient stage but it was sufficiently strong, I think, to have enabled ASEAN countries to have met with unexpected equanimity the deluge that some predicted for our countries at the end of the Vietnam War. True, ASEAN was shaken but two years after [the Vietnam War] not an inch of soil or any significant measure of confidence has been lost. In