CJC_2020_H1_Prelims

CATHOLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS 2020 H1 HISTORY 8821/01 Paper 1 The Cold War and the Modern World, 1945 - 2000 02 SEPT 2020 No Additional Materials are required. 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and home tutorial group on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Start each question on a fresh sheet of paper. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions*. *Questions set on the Common Last Topic of the syllabus do not form part of the assessment. They will not be marked by the Examiners. Do not answer the following question from Section B: Question 5 on page 5 Turn to the question and cross it out by drawing a line through the question. The total time allowed for this Question Paper has not been changed. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages including the cover page

2 SECTION A You must answer Question 1. THE WORLD AT THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR 1. Read the sources and then answer the questions which follow. Source A Their (US) first step was economic aggression. To weaken the revolution, they attacked on the economic front by taking away our sugar quota. They said, “Cuba depends on us economically. It is underdeveloped. Any government from which we take the sugar quota will surely fall.” The people responded with determination. The Soviet Union and other socialist countries - even though they had pl enty of sugar production of th eir own - agreed to buy our sugar so the revolution could withstand the blow. We got through that aggression thanks to the USSR. We had no protection from the inter-American system. But, thanks to the USSR, China and the other socialist countries, we had the sale of millions of tons of sugar assured. Our revolution could keep going. It was one step after another designed to blockade us. To drive us in a situation in which we would face shortages. The purpose was to defeat the Revolutionary Government which was working for the people and return to the old system of corruption. Adapted from a speech by Premier Fidel Castro to Cubans, on 23 April 1961. Source B *Khrushchev is depicted carrying a missile labelled with “Red “Technicians”” and “Rocket Threats”. Red is often associated with the Soviet Union. A cartoon published in an American newspaper, 1962.

3 Source C The urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base by the presence of long - range, offensive we apons of sudden mass destruction, constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. This action also contradicts the repeated assurances of Soviet spokesmen that the arms build -up in Cuba would retain its original defensive char acter, and that the Soviet