Edexcel A-Level History Paper 2 depth study overview quiz quiz

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A long period of well over a century, assessing broad change and continuity over time

A shorter, more intense period studied in detail

A personal coursework enquiry chosen and researched independently by the candidate

Only the comparison of competing interpretations offered by different historians

To defend East Berlin against an imminent armed invasion being prepared by NATO forces

To mark out on the ground the permanent border agreed by the Allies at the Yalta conference

To stop the flight of skilled workers and citizens from the GDR to the West

To replace the Stasi as the main instrument of state control over the East German population

The ruling political party that governed the German Democratic Republic throughout its existence

The state economic planning agency that drew up and managed the East German Five Year Plans

The official communist youth movement to which most young East Germans were expected to belong

The secret police running mass surveillance and informer networks

3 October 1990

9 November 1989

1 January 1991

13 August 1961

That the 'separate but equal' doctrine was lawful and could continue in the public schools

That segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

That slavery was abolished throughout every state of the Union with immediate effect

That all adults were entitled to vote regardless of any state-level literacy requirement

The Civil Rights Act

The Thirteenth Amendment

The Voting Rights Act

The Fair Housing Act

A military campaign launched to invade and recover the island of Taiwan by force

A diplomatic opening to the United States, sealed by President Nixon's visit to Beijing

A sweeping constitutional reform that rewrote the structure of the Chinese state

An economic campaign of 1958 to 1962 forcing peasants into communes

Young people mobilised during the Cultural Revolution to attack the 'Four Olds'

Mao's personal armed bodyguards, who protected the Chairman and his closest household

The Soviet advisers sent to China to help build heavy industry in the early 1950s

The senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party who sat on the ruling Politburo

Dismiss it outright as hopelessly biased and therefore of no use at all for the enquiry

Explain what its purpose makes it valuable for, such as evidence of official attitudes

Treat it as fully reliable on the facts it reports, since it was produced at the time

Ignore its provenance entirely and judge it purely on the surface content it presents