CAPE History Unit 2 · 2011 · Paper 2

19 questions and parts from this paper. Open one to see it in full, then practise it on Quelpr and get it marked against the mark scheme.

1. 1(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, explain why there could be "no liberty" if "legislative and executive powers are united in the same person".
2. 1(b)6 marksOutline THREE principles of the concept of equality as referred to in Document II.
3. 1(c)9 marksWith reference to Document III, suggest THREE reasons for the writer's view of monarchical government as "monstrous".
4. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain the significance of the European Enlightenment to the political revolutions in the Atlantic World in the late eighteenth century.
5. 230 marks"Economics and nothing else." Discuss this assessment of the reasons behind European settlements in the Americas up to 1763.
6. 330 marks"The Revolution of 1789 in France resulted mainly from royal incompetence." Discuss this statement with reference to the factors that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
7. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline THREE consequences of the industrial revolution for the working classes in the USA by the second half of the nineteenth century.
8. 4(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, give THREE reasons why the unions were unlikely to achieve the stated objectives for the workers up to the end of the nineteenth century.
9. 4(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, suggest THREE ways in which the labour movement became a "fixed fact" in American industrial relations up to 1900.
10. 4(d)12 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, give THREE examples to show that the industrial revolution in the United States of America led to a growth in industrial conflicts up to 1900.
11. 530 marksAccount for the interest of the United States of America in the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century to 1945.
12. 630 marksEITHER: Discuss the view that Brazil was able to consolidate its independence with relative ease between 1822 and 1840. OR: Account for the challenges encountered by Venezuela in consolidating its independence between…
13. 7(a)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document I, suggest ONE reason why the Tsar appealed to the German Kaiser to mediate between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
14. 7(a)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline TWO possible reasons for the Kaiser's comment that it was in the Tsar's power to avert "the disaster which [was] threatening the whole civilized world".
15. 7(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, comment on the view that Germany was willing to violate Belgium's neutrality to turn the crisis between Austria-Hungary and Serbia into a European war.
16. 7(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, outline THREE actions taken by Hitler up to the outbreak of World War II in 1939 which contradicted his assertion that he had "no desire to dominate".
17. 7(d)6 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, provide TWO examples to support the view that the outbreak of both World Wars I and II resulted from a failure of international diplomacy.
18. 830 marksDiscuss the view that the impact of World War I on Russia led to the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
19. 930 marksExamine the reasons for the national liberation movement in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1990s.