Exam Number:
MODERN HISTORY
Trial HSC Examination
2019
General instructions
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Reading time – 5 minutes
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Working time – 3 hours
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Write using black or blue pen
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A source booklet is provided with this
paper
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Answer each section in a new writing
booklet
Total marks – 100
Section I
25 marks
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Attempt Questions 1 - 4
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Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Section II
25 marks
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Attempt ONE from Question 5
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Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Section III
25 marks
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Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 - 8
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Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Section IV
25 marks
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Attempt all parts of Question 9
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Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Note: Any time you have remaining should be spent revising your answers.
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Section I – Power and Authority in the Modern World (1919 – 1946)
25 Marks
Attempt all questions
Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Answer in the spaces provided. These spaces provide guidance for the expected length of
response.
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In answering this Section, you will be assessed on your ability to:
• demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question
• communicate ideas and information logically
• use historical terms and concepts appropriately
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Outline the ambitions of Germany in Europe and Japan in the Asia-Pacific.
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Compare Sources A & B as evidence of the nature of the dictatorship in Italy.
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Assess the value and limitations of Source C for an historian studying the rise
of the Nazis.
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4.
Explain how the Nazis consolidated their power between 1933 and 1934.
Use Sources D, E, & F to support your answer.
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Section II – National Study
25 marks
Attempt ONE question from Question 5
Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
In answering this Section, you will be assessed on your ability to:
• demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question
• use relevant evidence and interpretation to support your response
• communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately
• present a sustained, logical and cohesive response
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Question 5 – Option F: Russia and the Soviet Union 1917 – 1941
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Assess the impact of Stalin’s economic transformation on Soviet society.
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Account for the nature of Soviet foreign policy 1917 – 1941.
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Question 6 – Option G: USA 1919-1941
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Assess the impact of American capitalism on the United States.
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How did the growth of urbanisation and industrialisation change US society?
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Section III – Peace and Conflict
25 marks
Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 - 8
Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
In answering this Section, you will be assessed on your ability to:
• demonstrate historical knowledge and understanding relevant to the question
• use relevant evidence and interpretation to support your response
• communicate ideas and information using historical terms and concepts appropriately
• present a sustained, logical and cohesive response
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Question 7 – Option A: Conflict in Indochina 1954 - 1979
(a)
Assess the effectiveness of strategy and tactics employed by the North Vietnamese
Army, the National Liberation Front, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the
USA.
OR
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To what extent was US involvement in Indochina responsible for the communist
victories?
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Question 8 – Option C: Conflict in Europe 1935 - 1945
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Assess the impact of Nazi ideology on German foreign policy.
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How critical were the Russian counter offensives of 1944 to Allied victory?
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Section IV – Change in the Modern World
25 Marks
Attempt all parts of Question 9
Allow about 45 minutes for this section
Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
In this section you will be assessed on how well you:
• Present a sustained, logical argument in answer to the question.
• Support your argument with relevant, accurate, historical information.
• Use historical terms and concepts appropriately
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Question 9 – Option C: Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968
(a)
Outline the extent of racial segregation and various forms of discrimination that African
Americans faced.
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Explain the nature of opposition to civil rights.
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Assess the effectiveness of methods employed in the civil rights movement.
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Question 10 – Option F: Apartheid in South Africa 1960-1994
(a)
Outline apartheid policy and practice in South Africa.
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Explain the impact of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress
(PAC).
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Assess the significance of Bantustans and independent black states.
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MODERN HISTORY
Trial HSC Examination
2019
SOURCE BOOKLET
Source A
Mussolini (on horseback) reviewing a military parade in Rome in October 1935.
Source B
An extract from George Seldes’ 1929 book, You Can’t Print That. Seldes was an American
investigative journalist in Europe in the 1920s & 1930s and reported on the rise of fascism in
Europe.
[Mussolini] began coldly, in a voice northern and unimpassioned. I had never heard an Italian
orator so restrained. Then he changed, became soft and warm, added gestures, and flames in his
eyes. The audience moved with him. He held them. Suddenly he lowered his voice to a heavy
whisper and the silence among the listeners became more intense. The whisper sank lower and the
listeners strained breathlessly to hear. Then Mussolini exploded with thunder and fire, and the
mob - for it was no more than a mob now - rose to its feet and shouted. Immediately Mussolini
became cold and Nordic and restrained again and swept his mob into its seats exhausted. An
actor. Actor extraordinary, with a country for a stage, a great powerful histrionic ego, swaying an
audience of millions, confounding the world by his theatrical cleverness.
Source C
Melita Maschmann published her memoirs in a 1963 book, Account Rendered: No Attempt at
Justification, in which she recounted her years as a member of the Hitler Youth and a
propagandist for the Nazi regime.
Part of the misery about which the adults complained daily was unemployment. One could have
no conception of what it meant for four, five or even six million people to have no work. Berlin had
four million inhabitants…Imagine all the families living in Berlin having scarcely enough dry
bread to satisfy their hunger... I believed the National Socialists when they promised to do away
with unemployment… I believed them when they said they would reunite the German nation,
which had split into more than forty political parties, and overcome the consequences of the
dictated peace of Versailles.
Source D
An extract from Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article, The Third Reich, accessed on 15 August 2019:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Third-Reich/The-Enabling-Act-and-the-Nazi-revolution
Hitler’s next step was to secure the passage of an Enabling Act, which would give the government
the power to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and of the president. Passage required a
two-thirds majority in the Reichstag. The 81 Communist deputies were either arrested or excluded.
The support of the Nationalists and of the Centre Party (73 seats) was obtained by assurances and
promises, and the Social Democrats who alone opposed the bill (March 23) were outvoted 441 to
94. The Enabling Act remained the constitutional basis of Hitler’s dictatorship. No new
constitution was ever introduced to replace that of the Weimar Republic, and fresh laws
were promulgated* as they were required. Thus was the legal foundation of the Third Reich
created.
promulgated – put into effect
Source E
An extract from Hitler’s speech at the Chancellery to the Nazi State Governors on 6 July 1933.
The revolution is not a permanent state of affairs, and it must not be allowed to develop into such
a state. The stream of revolution released must be guided into the safe channel of evolution... We
must therefore not dismiss a business man if he is a good business man, even if he is not yet a
National Socialist; and especially not if the National Socialist who is to take his place knows
nothing about business. In business, ability must be the only authoritative standard... History will
not judge us according to whether we have removed and imprisoned the largest number of
economists, but according to whether we have succeeded in providing work... The ideas of the
programme do not oblige us to act like fools and upset everything, but to realize our trains of
thought wisely and carefully. In the long run our political power will be all the more secure, the
more we succeed in underpinning it economically.
Source F
A cartoon by David Low entitled, They salute with both hands now! It was published in the British
newspaper, the Evening Standard, on 3rd July, 1934, in the aftermath of the Night of Long Knives.