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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

HISTORY 6006/2

PAPER 2 Regional and International History

NOVEMBER 2022 SESSION

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.

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

You should illustrate your answers with specific examples.

Candidates are advised to spend 45 minutes on each question.

This question paper consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page.
Copyright: Zimbabwe School Examinations Council, N2022.

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Section A

How far did economic factors contribute to the abolition of the Slave Trade in East and
West Africa?

Analyse the factors leading to the rise and subsequent expansion of Samori Toure’s
Mandinka Empire.

Discuss the view that the Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884-1885 was largely
responsible for precipitating the Scramble for Africa.

Assess the contribution of foreign intervention to the success of Mozambique’s
liberation struggle up to 1975.

Section B

‘The ideas of the Enlightenment set the revolution in motion.’ Discuss this view in
relation to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

How far do you agree with the view that Jacobin efforts to eradicate threats to the
Revolution led to a reversal of revolutionary gains by 1794?

With reference to his domestic policy up to 1815, how accurate is it to describe
Napoleon I as “an innovative leader.”?

Comment on the view that the Battle of Borodino (1812) marked the end of Napoleon
I’s glorious foreign policy. :

Section C

“An incomplete business.’ How valid is this view in relation to the work of the
statesmen at Vienna (1814-15)?

To what extent did the British policy of “each nation for itself and God for us all” lead
to the collapse of the congress system?

How valid is the view that the collapse of the Bourbons by 1830 was predictable?

Examine the assertion that the threat to Italian Unification came more from external
than internal forces in the period 1815 to 1870.

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Section D

‘The treaty of Versailles did not totally weaken Germany.’ How far do you agree with
this assertion?

How valid is the claim that the League of Nations collapsed because of constitutional
weaknesses?

Examine the view that Mussolini’s domestic policy was characterised by “inefficiency
and despotism.’

Analyse the view that Hitler’s conduct of foreign policy was justified.
Section E

Evaluate Stalin’s policy of collectivisation in Russia up to 1939.

“An insensitive government.” How apt is this description of the Kuomintang (KMT)’s
tule in China between 1911 and 1948?

“Western interference has been the major source of instability in the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) region.’ Discuss.

How far did the United Nations prevent the Cold War from escalating into a full scale
World War?

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