NYJC 2023 H1 History 8821 P1

NANYANGJUNIORCOLLEGEYear TwoPreliminaryExamination2023 HISTORYPaper 1TheColdWar andtheModernWorld(1945–2000) NoAdditional Materialsarerequired. READTHESEINSTRUCTIONSFIRST Writeyour nameandcivicstutorial grouponall theworkyouhandin.Writeindarkblueor blackpenonbothsidesof thepaper.YoumayuseanHBpencil for anydiagrams, graphsor roughworking.Donot usestaples, paper clips, glueor correctionfluid.DONOTWRITEINANYBARCODES. SectionAAnswer Question1. SectionBAnswer twoquestions. At theendof theexamination, slot inanyadditional answer bookletsintotheoriginal 12-pagebooklet. Handinyour answer bookletsfor eachsectionseparately. Thenumber of marksisgiveninbrackets[ ] at theendof eachquestionor part question. Thisdocument consistsof 5printedpages. [Turnover

2 SectionA Youmust answer Question1. THEKOREANWAR 1 Readthesourcesandanswer thequestionswhichfollow. SourceA I am firmly convinced that right now is the most suitable moment to take aggressive stepsand unite with our supporters in the North. We will drive the people of Kim Il Sung into amountainous region and exhaust themthere with hunger; then our lineof defenceshouldbecreated along the Tumen and Yalu Rivers. For 2000 years, the Koreans have defended ournation from the great invasions of the Chinese, Mongols and Japanese. I think that we arereadytorepeat thesuccessful defenceof our nationagainst foreigninvaders. I want you to convince the American government leaderstopermit ustocleansethecountryand bring order in our house, and for us to be given all the necessarymaterial support. Thelonger we wait, the harder it will be to do this, for the Soviets are winning a victory in theirCold War. Here in Korea, they are giving Communist agitators money, weapons, andpropaganda literature. They are organising Communist supporters into bands of terrorists,murderers, andthieveswhocommit murder, arson, anddestroyhumansociety. AdaptedfromSyngmanRhee’sletter tohisAmericanadvisor Robert T. Oliver,30September 1949. SourceB Thanks to the decisive role played by the Soviet army, the systemof barbarous Japaneseimperialist rule collapsed in Korea in 1945. The way was opened up for building aKoreaforthe Koreans, for building a newcountry and a newlife in conformity to our people's will anddemands. The democratic reforms carried out in northern Korea during this period haveended colonial and feudal relations that had long retarded the development of our country'seconomyandculture. However, many difficulties lie on the road of the democratic construction of thecountry. Thisis because the aggressive army of USimperialismisstationedinsouthernKorea, seekingtoturn our country into a colony once again. Agang of lackeys are trying to sell out Korea toimperialismas a colony again. Today, theUSAmonopolisesall power insouthernKoreaandisdoingeverythinginitsfranticeffort tosuppressthedemocraticforces. Let usmarchvigorouslyaheadfor thefreedomandindependenceof our country! AdaptedfromKimIl-sung’sspeechat ameetingof therulingcommunist party(theK