Unit 15: Paper 2 — Authoritarian States (20th Century)
Topic 15.4: Case studies (authoritarian leaders) Questions
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Choose the government department that Juan Perón used to build his early mass following after the 1943 coup.
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Who served as the public face of Egypt's new republican regime as president before Nasser sidelined him by 1954?
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What was the immediate result of Nasser's 1956 nationalisation of the Suez Canal?
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Why did the United Arab Republic, formed between Egypt and Syria in 1958, collapse in 1961?
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Examine the reasons why Juan Perón was able to rise to power in Argentina by 1946.
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The Great Terror, a wave of mass arrests, executions and show trials carried out by the NKVD, took place mainly in which years?
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According to the exam-skills guidance for Paper 2, Stalin belongs to the European region, so he should be paired with a leader from a different region such as which of the following?
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On what date was the People's Republic of China proclaimed?
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Which event confirmed Mao as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party?
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Examine the reasons for the rise to power of one authoritarian leader.
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Examine the methods used by one authoritarian leader to consolidate their hold on power.
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What was the name of the block-level watch groups Castro used to monitor the population for dissent?
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Which event most directly locked Cuba firmly inside the Soviet camp during the Cold War?
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Discuss the view that Stalin's collectivisation of agriculture was driven mainly by economic aims.
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Compare and contrast the rise to power of two authoritarian leaders, each from a different region.
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'Propaganda was more important than terror in maintaining Nazi power in Germany.' To what extent do you agree?
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Which law allowed Hitler's cabinet to make laws without the Reichstag, forming the legal basis of his dictatorship?
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To what extent were Stalin's economic policies in the USSR a success?
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Which campaign was Mao's rushed drive to industrialise using communes and backyard furnaces?
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Examine the impact of Juan Perón's rule on the position of women in Argentina.
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