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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

HISTORY 6006/2

PAPER 2 Regional and International History
SPECIMEN PAPER 2018 3 hours

Additional material:
Answer paper

TIME 3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer paper.

Answer four questions from at least three of Sections A — E.
Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided.

If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

This paper consists of 20 questions.

Each question in this paper carries 25 marks.

Y ou are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers.

This Specimen paper consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page.

Copyright: Zimbabwe School Examinations Council, Specimen paper 2018.

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Section A

To what extent was Samouri Toure’s empire created and preserved by military
means?

How far was the failure to obtain a substitute the main obstacle to the abolition of
Slave Trade in West A frica?

Evaluate the importance of the House System in the Niger Delta States.

‘The colonisation of A frica in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was an attempt
to avert an impending political crisis in Europe.’ Do you agree?

Section B

How far did economic suffering by the Third Estate in the period to 1789 precipitate
the French Revolution?

‘A period of unnecessary and indiscriminate violence.’ To what extent is this true of
the reign of terror in France?

Assess the impact of Napoleon Bonaparte’s domestic reforms on the French people.

To what extent was Napoleon I’s foreign policy dependent on the army?

Section C

‘Each nation for itself and God for us all.’ To what extent did this British policy
contribute to the collapse of the Congress System?

Discuss the assertion that Charles X’s rule in France was ‘vindictive and
retrogressive.’

Examine the view that the papacy was the main obstacle to Italian unification in the
period 1830 — 1871.

How valid is the assertion that Bismarck prioritised Prussian supremacy and interests
in his policies up to 1870?

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Section D

‘A one-sided and vindictive treaty.” Do you agree with this comment on the treaty of
Versailles?

To what extent did Stressmann’s policies delay Hitler’s ascendance to power in the
period 1924 to 1930?

Assess the impact of Mussolini’s domestic policies on the Italian people between
1922 and 1940.

How far was the policy of Appeasement the main cause of the outbreak of World
War II?

Section E
To what extent did Tsar Nicholas II’s participation in the First World War lead to the
outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917?
Peasant support was key to the Chinese Communist party’s rise to power by 1949?

Examine the view that Stalinism caused more harm than good in Russia in the period
1924 - 1953.

How effective was the United Nations Organisation (UNO) as a peacekeeping body
from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s?

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