AS & A Level History (9489) — October–November 2023, Paper 43

‘The Acerbo Law was the most important tactic used by Mussolini to establish a dictatorship by 1925.’ Discuss. [30]

Evaluate the impact of industrialisation on the Russian people. [30]

Assess the extent to which Nazi economic policies had achieved their objectives by 1941. [30]

Analyse the reasons why the policy of appeasement received support in Britain during the 1930s. [30]

Analyse why women experienced social and economic inequality in the late 1940s and 1950s. [30]

Assess the impact of the Vietnam War on party politics in the 1960s and 1970s. [30]

Assess the political importance of the Iran–Contra Affair. [30]

‘The US was responsible for the onset of the Second Cold War.’ Discuss. [30]

Assess how far the policy of détente (1963–79) resulted from the superpowers’ fear of nuclear war. [30]

Assess the extent to which the policy of containment was the reason for the United States’ growing involvement in Vietnam. [30]

Analyse the significance of Senghor’s role in gaining independence for Senegal. [30]

‘The consequences of the Arab–Israeli War of 1948–49 were more significant for Israel than the Arab world.’ Discuss. [30]