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© SAJC 2020 8821/01/J2/Prelims/2020 ST ANDREW’S JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examination General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 1 HISTORY Paper 1: The Cold War and the Modern World (1945-2000) 8821/01 28 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 an HB pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction flui DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. _________________________________________________________________________ This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page. [Turn Over

2 © SAJC 2020 8821/01/J2/Prelims/2020 Section A You must answer Question 1. The Korean War 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A Comrade Stalin confirmed to Kim Il -Sung that the international environment has sufficiently changed to permit a more active stance on the unification of Korea. China is no longer busy with internal fighting and can devote its attention and energy to the assistance of Korea. If necessary, China has at its disposal troops which can be utilised in Korea without any harm to the other needs of China. The Chinese victory is also important psychologically. It has proved the strength of Asian revolutionaries, and shown the weakness of Asian puppet rulers and their mentors in the West, in Amer ica. The Americans left China and did not dare challenge the new Chinese authorities militarily. Now that China has signed a treaty of alliance with the USSR, the Americans will be even more hesitant to challenge the Communists in Asia. According to information coming from the United States, it is really so. The prevailing mood is not to interfere. Such a mood is reinforced by the fact that the USSR now has the atomic bomb and that our positions are solidified in Pyongyang. A Soviet report on the conversations between Stalin and Kim Il-Sung during their meetings, April 1950. Source B The defensive perimeter runs from the Ryukyus* to the Philippine Islands. Our relations, our defensive relations with the Philippines are contained in agreements b etween us. Those agreements are being loyally carried out and will be loyally carried out. An attack on the Philippines could not and would not be tolerated by the United States. But I am quick to add that no one perceives the imminence of any such attack. Should such an attack occur—one hesitates