MI_H2_HIST_9752_01_QP

Class Adm No Candidate Name: This question paper consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over 2018 Preliminary Exams Pre-university 3 H2 HISTORY 9752/01 Shaping the International Order 11 th September 2018 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. Begin each question on a fresh sheet of writing paper. 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. NATO and the Warsaw Pact Source A In a communique issued at the close of the meeting, pact members expressed the view that the colonial system would continue to disi ntegrate under the blows of national liberation movements. It criticized the proposal to make the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) the fourth atomic force and looked upon the restoration of the West German Army and its equipment with missile-nuclear weapons as a growing threat to peace in Europe. In view of the increasing military preparations of the imperialist states, the declaration stated, members had agreed upon further consolidation of their defence capacity and upon measure to strengthen peace throughout the world. In conclusion, the Warsaw Pact members declared that they would continue to follow unswervingly a policy of peaceful coexistence and that they were ready at any moment to take broad measures, agreed upon with other states to insure peace and security. Extracted from a report of the meeting of Warsaw Pact members, 1961. Source B The Contracting Parties, Reaffirming their desire for the establishment of a system of European collective security based on the participation of all European states irrespective of their social and political systems, which would make it possible to unite their efforts in safeguarding the peace of Europe; Mindful, at the same time, of the situation created in Europe by the ratification of the Paris agreements, which envisage the formation of a new military alignment in the shape of “Western European Union”, with the participation of a remilitarized Western Germany and the integration of the latter in the North Atlantic bloc, which increases the danger of another war, and constitutes a threat to the national security of peaceful states; Being persuaded that in these circumstances the