2020_MI_H2_History_PU3_Paper_1_EOY_FINAL

Class Adm No Candidate Name: This question paper consists of 6 printed pages. [Turn over 2020 Preliminary Exams Pre-university 3 H2 HISTORY 9752/01 Shaping the International Order (1945-2000) 31 August 2020 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and class on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams or graphs. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Leave two lines in between your answers for each question or begin each question on a new page. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer TWO questions. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

2 Section A You must answer Question 1. 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. American Involvement in the Vietnam War Source A The United States has no designs whatever on the resources or territory of the area. Our national interests do not require that South Vietnam serve as a Western base or as a member of a Western alliance. South Vietnam, a member of the free world family, is striving to preserve its independence from communist attack. The Vietnamese have asked our help. We have given it. We shall continue to give it. "The ultimate goal of the United States in Southeast Asia, as in the rest of the world, is to help maintain free and independent nations which can develop politically, eco nomically, and socially and which can be responsible members of the world community. In this region and elsewhere many peoples share our sense of the value of such freedom and independence. They have taken the risks and made the sacrifices linked to the co mmitment to membership in the family of the free world. They have done this in the belief that we would back up our pledges to help defend them. It is not right or even expedient --nor is it in our nature --to abandon them when the going is difficult. Speech by Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 26 March 1964, Department of State Bulletin, April 1964. Source B From the spring of 1955 on, the United States gave South Vietnam unstinting help in the international arena, and over the decade of Diem's power supplied more than $2 billion in military and economic assistance. However dependent his regime was upon the United States, Diem never became an American puppet. In the early years following Geneva, Washington's view was that South Vietnam's war with the Communists was over; the main task now was to rebuild the south and to develop viable political, economic, and social institutions. In