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©DHS 2018 Name: Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examination Year 6 H1 HISTORY 8821/01 Paper 1 The Cold War and the Modern World (1945-2000) 13 September 2018 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, index number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page. [Turn over

©DHS 2018 2 Section A You must answer Question 1. The Berlin Blockade and the Outbreak of the Cold War 1 Read the sources and answer the question which follow. Source A Meanwhile, people in the cities are short of food and fuel, and in some places approaching starvation levels. So, the governments are for ced to use their foreign money and credits to procure these necessities abroad. This process exhausts funds, which are urgently needed for reconstruction. Thus, a very serious situation is rapidly developing, which bodes no good for the world. The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products, -- pr incipally from America – are so much greater than her present ability to pay t hat she must have substantial add itional help or face economic, social and political deterioration of a very grave character. From the Marshall Plan Speech by George Marshall, 5 June 1947. Source B The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as economic unit. Essential German administrative departments have not been established, although they are expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement. The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for the approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam agreement. The barriers between the four zones of Germany are far more difficult to surmount than those between normal independent states. The time has come when the zonal boundaries should be regarded as defining only the areas to be occupied for security purposes by the armed forces of the occupying powers and not as self-contained economic or political units. From a speech given by James Byrnes, US Secretary of State, in the German city of Stuttgart on 6 September 1946.

©DHS 2018 3 Source C A cartoon published in a British newspaper on 9 September 1945. Source D In as much as the situation