AS & A Level History (9489) — May–June 2025, Paper 22

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

Question 1 · 30 marks · Modern Europe, 1750–1921: France, 1774–1814

Explain why the March of the Women, 6 October 1789, happened. [10]

Question 2 · 30 marks · Modern Europe, 1750–1921: The Industrial Revolution in Britain, 1750–1850

Explain why agricultural output had increased by 1800. [10]

Question 3 · 30 marks · Modern Europe, 1750–1921: The Russian Revolution, 1894–1921

Explain why there was a march on the Winter Palace in January 1905. [10]

Question 4 · 30 marks · The history of the USA, 1820–1941: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–77

Explain why the US Congress imposed military rule on the South in 1867. [10]

Question 5 · 30 marks · The history of the USA, 1820–1941: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870s–1920

Explain why many Progressive laws were passed during Woodrow Wilson's presidency. [10]

Question 6 · 30 marks · The history of the USA, 1820–1941: The Great Crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal policies, 1920–41

Explain why the conservative right viewed the New Deal as anti-capitalist. [10]

Question 7 · 30 marks · International history, 1870–1945: Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870–1919

Explain why Roosevelt introduced the Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904. [10]

Question 8 · 30 marks · International history, 1870–1945: The League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s

Explain why Lloyd George organised the Genoa conference in 1922. [10]

Question 9 · 30 marks · International history, 1870–1945: China and Japan, 1912–45

Explain why Chiang Kai-shek became leader of the Kuomintang following the death of Sun Yat-sen. [10]