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TASMANIAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY
Tasmanian Certificate of Education
MODERN WORLD HISTORY
Senior Secondary
Subject Code: HSM315110
External Assessment
2011
Time: Three Hours
On the basis of your performance in this examination, the examiners will provide
results on each of the following criteria taken from the course statement:
Criterion 2
Communicate ideas and information.
Criterion 5
Use evidence to support a point of view.
Criterion 6
Analyse and evaluate issues and information.
Criterion 7
Demonstrate knowledge of and use appropriately historical ideas and
information.
Criterion 8
Demonstrate a capacity to appreciate the nature of historical debate.
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Modern World History
CANDIDATE INSTRUCTIONS
You MUST ensure that you have addressed ALL of the externally assessed criteria on this
examination paper.
There are THREE sections to this paper.
You must answer THREE questions, ONE question from each section.
It is suggested that you spend no more than ONE hour on each section.
Remember, read the criteria being assessed before you write your answer.
All written responses must be in English.
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SECTION A
Answer ONE question from this section
Use a separate answer booklet for this section.
This section assesses Criteria 2, 7 and 8.
Question 1
What major issues have been raised by historians in the debate about the causes of World War I?
Question 2
‘It was a peace of vengeance. It reeked with injustice!’
With reference to the aims of the signatories and the treaties concluded, discuss how historians and
other commentators have viewed the various treaties signed at Paris in 1919-1920.
Question 3
‘The failure of international diplomacy to prevent the rise of aggression by the Axis powers has been
seen as a critical factor in the outbreak of World War II.’
In the light of this statement, examine the ways historians have seen the causes of the war. (You must
refer to both the European and Asian theatres in your response.)
Question 4
What reasons have been offered by historians to explain the victory of the Allied powers in World
War II?
Question 5
How have historians attempted to explain the origins and scope of the Cold War in the half century
after 1941? What factors have prompted a re-evaluation of these opinions?
Question 6
What have been the explanations offered by historians and other commentators for the outbreak of the
Gulf War in 1990 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003? How have they attempted to explain any variation
in motives?
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SECTION B
Answer ONE question from this section
Use a separate answer booklet for this section.
This section assesses Criteria 2, 5 and 6.
Question 7
Account for the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917. How did the Bolshevik leaders
consolidate their authority in Russia until Lenin’s death in 1924?
Question 8
Account for Stalin’s rise to power from 1924 and explain the nature of his dictatorship until 1953. To
what extent was his rule beneficial to the Soviet Union?
Question 9
What factors aided Hitler’s rise to power? How did he extend this power and create change in
Germany from 1933 to 1939?
Question 10
How complete was Hitler’s control of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945?
Question 11
What factors contributed to the collapse of democracy in Japan in the inter-war years? To what extent
was this collapse inevitable?
Question 12
Assess the role of the American occupation of Japan at the end of World War II as a significant factor
in Japan’s economic power in the latter half of the 20th century.
Section B continues opposite.
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Section B (continued)
Question 13
Discuss the view that the Communists were successful in gaining power in China in 1949 because they
had won the hearts and minds of the Chinese peasantry.
Question 14
Critically evaluate the influence of Mao Zedong in the development of modern China from 1949 to
1976.
Question 15
Analyse the reasons behind the overthrow of the pre-revolutionary regimes in either Iran or Cuba or
Afghanistan. To what extent was the revolution inevitable?
Question 16
What were the challenges that confronted the post- revolutionary regimes in either Iran or Cuba or
Afghanistan? Assess the successes and failures of the revolution.
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SECTION C
Answer ONE question from this section
Use a separate answer booklet for this section.
This section assesses Criteria 2, 6 and 7.
Question 17
What have been the critical elements of Jewish and Palestinian nationalism? What issues still remain
unresolved in this troubled region?
Question 18
What problems did Irish nationalists face from 1905? To what extent had these been overcome by
1949?
Question 19
What were the problems associated with the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia?
What had Sukarno achieved by 1965?
Question 20
What were the significant events leading up to Indian Independence in 1947? How did the major
players in this situation view partition?
Question 21
Why did armed conflict occur in Vietnam from 1941 to 1975? Why did the Communists ultimately
prevail?
Section C continues opposite.
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Section C (continued)
Question 22
Critically examine the opinion that the United Nations is no longer relevant.
Question 23
How have the strategies and aims of terrorist groups changed over time? What are the difficulties that
arise when attempting a definition of terrorism?
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