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1 © VJC 2018 9752/01 | JC2 Preliminary Examination VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2018 HIGHER 2 H2 History 9752/01 Paper 1 Shaping the International Order (1945-2000) 11 September 2018 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your class, index number and name 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, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid/tape. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten and submit your work for Section A and Section B separately. Ensure that your work is fastened securely. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over

2 © VJC 2018 9752/01 | JC2 Preliminary Examination Section A You must answer Question 1. END OF THE COLD WAR 1 Read the sources and answer the questions that follow. Source A Interviewer: When people look back at this era, what lessons are they going to take from it? Forsberg: We began the decade with an administration that was uninterested in arms control and adamant about not talking to the Soviets. We're ending the decade with an administration which is not only talking to the Soviets, but has concluded the first treaty that is going to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons. What happened between 1981 and 1988 was the nuclear freeze movement. The other remarkable thing is that the nuclear freeze movement was at its height when we were at the worst of the Reagan rhetoric against the Soviet Union. And as the nuclear freeze movement became demoralized and stopped being publicly active, that was when the Reagan Administration started reacting and showing the impact of the anti- nuclear movement, going back to the bargaining table with the Soviets, concluding that it was not possible to come out successfully with a legacy, or as a Republican Party going into a new presidential election, without an arms control agreement. Interview with Randall Forsberg, founder of the Nuclear Freeze movement in America, 1987. Source B A cartoon published in an American newspaper, 29 November 1987.

3 © VJC 2018 9752/01 | JC2 Preliminary Examination Source C 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. Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes i