Unit 8: Paper 2 — Authoritarian Rule
Topic 8.4: How was authoritarian rule challenged? Questions
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Examine the reasons why some authoritarian regimes survive sustained challenges while others collapse.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of internal opposition in challenging authoritarian regimes.
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To what extent was authoritarian rule challenged more effectively by external threats than by opposition from within?
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Explain a relevant example of the impact of policies in challenging authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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What was the immediate effect of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961) on Castro's regime in Cuba?
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Which event in South Africa in 1960 is an example of a regime's own repressive policies turning global opinion against it?
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Analyse cause and consequence in the challenging of authoritarian rule, using one example from your thematic study.
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Analyse different perspectives on the challenging of authoritarian rule, using one example from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of external threat to authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of popular resistance to authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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Discuss the view that an authoritarian regime's own policies are usually the main cause of its downfall.
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Which group of Munich university students secretly printed and distributed leaflets exposing Nazi crimes from 1942, and were executed in February 1943?
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Who led the 20 July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler at his military headquarters?
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What ultimately ended Nazi rule in Germany in 1945?
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