AS & A Level History (9489) — May–June 2024, Paper 23

9 questions · every question answerable online with instant point-by-point AI marking against the official mark scheme.

Question 1 · 30 marks · France, 1774–1814

Explain why the storming of the Bastille happened.

Question 2 · 30 marks · Liberalism and nationalism in Germany, 1815–71

Explain why the Prussian revolutionaries of 1848 failed.

Question 3 · 30 marks · The Russian Revolution, 1894–1921

Explain why the Constituent Assembly was dissolved in January 1918.

Question 4 · 30 marks · The origins of the Civil War, 1820–61

Explain why it took a decade for the independent Republic of Texas to join the Union.

Question 5 · 30 marks · Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–77

Explain why the governments of both the North and the South attempted to limit civil liberties between 1861 and 1865.

Question 6 · 30 marks · The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870s–1920

Explain why Progressive presidents changed the laws governing business.

Question 7 · 30 marks · Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870–1919

Explain why increasing contact with foreign powers led to significant changes within Japan in the late nineteenth century.

Question 8 · 30 marks · The League of Nations and international relations in the 1930s

Explain why the World Disarmament Conference (1932–34) ended without agreement.

Question 9 · 30 marks · China and Japan, 1912–45

Explain why the attempt to establish parliamentary democracy in Japan failed.