AS & A Level History (9489) — May–June 2024, Paper 42

‘Mussolini failed to solve the economic problems facing Italy.’ Discuss. [30]

Assess the extent to which workers benefited from the economic changes in the USSR from 1924 to 41. [30]

Evaluate the effectiveness of the Nazi regime’s responses to the Great Depression. [30]

Assess the view that women’s roles and status did not change significantly in Britain in the period 1919–39. [30]

Analyse the effectiveness of the NAACP in promoting civil rights in the late 1940s and 1950s. [30]

Evaluate the reasons why post-war economic doctrines lost influence in the 1960s and 1970s. [30]

‘Too little, too late.’ Evaluate this view of the response of the US authorities to the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. [30]

‘Kennedy’s policies towards Cuba were irresponsible.’ Discuss this view. [30]

Assess the impact of the death of Stalin on US–Soviet relations. [30]

Analyse the extent to which the Korean War was responsible for Sino-US hostility in the 1950s and 1960s. [30]

‘Kenyatta’s leadership was the main reason Kenya was able to gain its independence.’ Discuss. [30]

Assess how far President Nasser was responsible for causing the Six-Day War (1967). [30]