P1 TMJC 2019 Cuban Missile Crisis

Tampines Meridian Junior College 2019 JC2 Prelim H2 History CANDIDATE NAME CIVICS GROUP H2 HISTORY 9752/01 Paper 1 Shaping the International Order (1945-2000) 19 September 2019 3 hours Additional material Answer booklets READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and Civics Group in the spaces at the top of the page. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the 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. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. __________________________________________________________________________ This document consists of 5 printed pages. JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION TAMPINES MERIDIAN JUNIOR COLLEGE For Examiners’ Use 1 a 1 b Total

2 Tampines Meridian Junior College 2019 JC2 Prelim H2 History SECTION A You must answer Question 1. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1 Read the sources and then answer the questions which follow. Source A Our purpose has been and is to help Cuba, and no one can challenge the humanity of our motives aimed at allowing Cuba to live peacefully and develop as its people desire. You want to relieve your country from danger and this is understandable. However, Cuba also wants this. All countries want to relieve your country from danger. But how can we the Soviet Union and our government, assess your action which, in effect, mean that you have surrounded the Soviet Union with military bases, surrounded our allies with military bases, set up military bases literally around our country, and stationed your rocket weapons at them? This is no secret. High -placed American officials demonstratively declare thi s. Your rockets are stationed in Britain and in Italy and pointed at us. Your rockets are stationed in Turkey. Extracted from a letter of Khrushchev to Kennedy, 26 October 1962. Source B Political Cartoon published on 5 September 1962. shovel

3 Tampines Meridian Junior College 2019 JC2 Prelim H2 History Source C To: Mr. Fidel Castro 1. The US has full info rmation on the missile bases being constructed in Pino del Mar province. Medium range missiles capable of reaching a substantial portion of US territory and most of the countries in the Caribbean area are being installed at three sites. They obviously have no use except with nuclear heads. It also seems clear that they can only be operated by Soviet military, not Cubans. 2. The US will have to inform its people of the threat which now exists in Cuba within the next day and what it and its allies intend to do about it in conformity with the requirements of our security as previously mentioned. Unless it can receive assurances from you prior to that time that you will not tolerate this misuse