Topic 8.5: Concepts and Paper 2 exam skills Questions

Discuss the extent to which supporters' and victims' perspectives on authoritarian regimes can both be considered reliable evidence for historians. Support your answer with reference to two authoritarian regimes from two different regions of your thematic study.

To what extent was the rise of authoritarian regimes the result of leaders exploiting crisis conditions rather than the product of inevitable long-term forces? Support your answer with reference to two authoritarian regimes from two different regions of your thematic study.

Analyse continuity and change in an authoritarian regime, using one example from your thematic study.

Evaluate the reasons why authoritarian regimes rose to power in the periods you have studied.

Analyse perspectives on the impact of one authoritarian regime, using one example from your thematic study.

Analyse continuity and change, using one example from your thematic study.

Explain an example of how an authoritarian leader seized power, from your thematic study.

Explain an example of how authoritarian rule was maintained, from your thematic study.

Analyse perspectives on an authoritarian regime, using one example from your thematic study.

To what extent was force the most important method used to maintain authoritarian rule?

Examine the methods used to end or challenge authoritarian rule.

In Perón's rise to power in Argentina, which factor is best described as the short-term trigger rather than a long-term cause?

Evaluate the claim that authoritarian regimes transform society completely, leaving little of the old order intact. Support your answer with reference to two authoritarian regimes from two different regions of your thematic study.

Explain a relevant example of a short-term trigger combining with long-term causes to bring an authoritarian regime to power, from your thematic study.

Examine how historians decide that a particular authoritarian regime is significant. Support your answer with reference to two authoritarian regimes from two different regions of your thematic study.

Which concept does the Meiji Japan (1868-1912) example best illustrate, according to this micro-topic?

Explain a relevant example of a regime being judged significant for what it reveals about a wider historical pattern, from your thematic study.

Analyse cause and consequence in the rise of an authoritarian regime, using one example from your thematic study.

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

Explain an example of resistance to authoritarian rule, from your thematic study.