Topic 6.5: Concepts and Paper 2 exam skills Questions

On Paper 2, how many Section A questions must a student answer?

What is the command term used for every Section A question on this Paper 2 format?

Choose the term historians use to describe the gap between official U.S. government reports and journalists'/soldiers' on-the-ground accounts during the Vietnam War.

Evaluate the claim that the consequences of a conflict are usually more significant than its causes. Refer to two examples from your thematic study, drawn from at least two different regions.

Choose the outcome that best illustrates continuity and change in Vietnam after 1975.

Choose the approximate death toll and duration of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

According to the Section A markbands, what does a 5-6 mark answer require?

Explain a relevant example of historians judging the significance of a conflict differently depending on their focus, from your thematic study.

In the Rwandan Genocide (1994) example used to illustrate cause and consequence, what colonial-era factor is identified as a root cause?

Explain a relevant example of a long-term cause building into a short-term trigger from your thematic study.

Choose the short-term trigger that turned long-term tensions into the First World War in 1914.

Choose the long-term cause of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20) identified in this topic.

Analyse cause and consequence, using one example from your thematic study.

Analyse perspectives, using one example from your thematic study.

Explain a relevant example of a claim about a conflict that different perspectives contest, from your thematic study.

Explain a relevant example of a civil war that led to significant political transformation, using one example from your thematic study.

Explain a relevant example of how colonial-era decisions caused a later conflict, using one example from your thematic study.

To what extent were the causes of conflict in the 20th century primarily long-term structural conditions rather than short-term triggers? Refer to two examples from your thematic study, drawn from at least two different regions.

Discuss the view that perspectives on a conflict from those who lived through it are more reliable than the judgements of later historians. Refer to two examples from your thematic study, drawn from at least two different regions.

Examine how judgements of significance about a conflict can change depending on whether power, impact, or what the conflict reveals is used as the criterion. Refer to two examples from your thematic study, drawn from at least two different regions.